fleshhouse

English

Alternative forms

  • flesh house
  • fleshows (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs (“slaughterhouse, meat shop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“shambles”), equivalent to flesh +‎ house.

Noun

fleshhouse (plural fleshhouses)

  1. (rare) A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop.
    Synonyms: shambles, slaughterhouse
    • 1915, Lauron William De Laurence, The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism, Now..., page 80:
      To seek for things that are pure and good, instead of criticis and philosophies, that rise up out of thy contaminated fleshhouse.
    • 2019, Alexander Grant, Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship & Community, page 165:
      He probably did most of his selling in the market place; in the fifteenth century there was a special fleshhouse set aside for the fleshers to sell their wares.
    • 2019, Sara Wolf, Find Me Their Bones:
      The fleshhouses exist in defiance of all Vetris's suffocating religion and decorum, and maybe that's why I feel a little freer here, even if the hawkers sitting outside shout me down as I pass or the customers give me a leery eye every few steps.
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