bordello
Americannoun
plural
bordellosnoun
Etymology
Origin of bordello
1590–1600; < Italian < Old French bordel bordel
Example Sentences
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Reid was born Dec. 2, 1939, the son of an alcoholic hard-rock miner who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello.
From Seattle Times
It has served as a saloon, restaurant, gas station, dance hall — and a bordello, WUCF-TV reported a few years ago.
From Fox News
At the time, the Black Monarch was known simply as the Monarch, an upscale gentlemen’s club, where many of the millionaires who committed these atrocities likely gambled and drank before venturing upstairs to the bordello.
From The Guardian
By the time it eventually came on the market last year, Bocanegra and his partners had borrowed and scrounged the €1.4m needed to stop it becoming a burger bar, an Airbnb or a bordello.
From The Guardian
She says the effort is not an attempt to outlaw the bordellos.
From Washington Times
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