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call house

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noun

  1. a house or apartment used by prostitutes for arranging or keeping assignations.

  2. a place at which call girls await telephone calls from customers.

Etymology

Origin of call house

First recorded in 1915–20

Example Sentences

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Think, that is, about what publishers call house style.

From Washington Post • Sep. 12, 2017

Madame Mina of the call house finds Meyer is a lawyer.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this consideration he was allowed to call house and land after his own name, but was forbidden to cut down timber.

From Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

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