bordello

[ bawr-del-oh ]

/ bɔrˈdɛl oʊ /

a brothel.

Origin of bordello

1590–1600; < Italian < Old French bordel bordel

And the vermillion wall covering in the library that seemed very 19th-century bordello.

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The Bangkok “fish tank” bordello is glitzy and businesslike.

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When Heidi Fleiss announced she was opening a bordello for women, he sent his picture and received a positive response.

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To pass for ever out of and beyond 170one's self is to the artist the lesson of Bordello's story.

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"Sophia, you and the cardinal must not be linked to Tilia Caballo's bordello," said Tilia.

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Surely he would have then concluded me as constant at the bordello, as the galley-slave at his oar.

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That there is something unmanly about a grown man playing the piano, save only when he plays it in a bordello.

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But as with the bits of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope, the elements of Bordello's mind remain the same.

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bordello

/ (bɔːˈdɛləʊ) /

a brothel Also called (archaic): bordel (ˈbɔːdəl)

C16: from Italian, from Old French borde hut, cabin