lupanar

[ loo-pey-ner, -pah- ]

noun

1. a brothel; whorehouse.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lupanar¹

1860–65; < Latin lupānar, derivative of lupa prostitute, literally, she-wolf

Example Sentences

Queen Joanna of Naples made ordinances for a lupanar at Avignon, in 1347, when it was the papal residence.

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In the lupanar, of course, rules regarding costume were unheeded.

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Just at their junction, and having an entrance into both, stands the Lupanar, from which the latter street derives its name.

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Their name, fornices, at last became synonymous with lupanar, and we have borrowed from it our generic word fornication.

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It was only the ignorant lower middle-class of England that thought France was a mighty lupanar and adultery a joke.

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