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6 brothel-keeper
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7 repute
repute [rɪˈpju:t]• a house of ill repute ( = brothel) une maison close* * *[rɪ'pjuːt]a house of ill repute — euph une maison close
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8 disorderly house
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1 ( also Madam) ( form of address) madame f ; ( in titles) Madame f ; Madam Chairman Madame la Présidente ; Dear Madam Madame ;3 ( in brothel) mère f maquerelle. -
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12 honky-tonk
honky-tonk ['hɒŋkɪ‚tɒŋk]1 noun(b) American familiar (brothel) maison f close□ ; old-fashioned (nightclub) beuglant m; (bar) bouge m; (gambling den) tripot m∎ a honky-tonk bar un bar louche;∎ a honky-tonk district un quartier chaud;∎ a honky-tonk night club une boîte de nuit louche;∎ a honky-tonk woman une putain -
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madam ['mædəm]∎ Dear Madam (Chère) Madame;∎ madam Chairman Madame la Présidente;∎ she's a little madam c'est une petite pimbêche -
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1 nounpéché m;∎ to commit a sin pécher, commettre un péché;∎ sins of omission/commission péchés mpl par omission/action;∎ the sin of pride le péché d'orgueil;∎ it's a sin to tell a lie mentir ou le mensonge est un péché;∎ it would be a sin to sell it ce serait un crime de le vendre;∎ humorous for my sins, I'm the person in charge of all this malheureusement pour moi, c'est moi le responsable de tout ça;pécher;∎ to sin against sth pécher contre qch;∎ to be more sinned against than sinning être plus victime que coupable►► familiar sin bin
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Brothel — Broth el, n. [OE. brothel, brodel, brethel, a prostitute, a worthless fellow, fr. AS. ber[ o][eth]an to ruin, destroy; cf. AS. bre[ o]tan to break, and E. brittle. The term brothel house was confused with bordel brothel. CF. {Bordel}.] A house of … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
brothel — bawdy house, 1590s, shortened from brothel house, from brothel prostitute (late 15c.), earlier vile, worthless person of either sex (14c.), from O.E. broðen pp. of breoðan deteriorate, go to ruin, from P.Gmc. *breuthanan, var. of *breutanan to… … Etymology dictionary
brothel — [n] house of prostitution bagnio, bawdy house*, bordello, call house*, cathouse*, den of iniquity*, house of assignation, house of ill repute, house with red doors*, massage parlor, red light district, whorehouse; concept 449 … New thesaurus
brothel — ► NOUN ▪ a house where men visit prostitutes. ORIGIN originally in the sense «worthless man, prostitute»: related to an Old English word meaning «degenerate, deteriorate» … English terms dictionary
brothel — [bräth′əl, brôth′əl] n. [ME, wretched person < OE brothen, pp. of broethan, to waste away, go to ruin; confused with BORDEL] a place where prostitutes may be engaged for hire … English World dictionary
Brothel — Lupanar redirects here. For the Pompeii brothel, see Lupanar (Pompeii). Cathouse redirects here. For other uses, see Cathouse (disambiguation). For the 2008 film The Brothel , see Brothel (film). Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Salon at the Rue des… … Wikipedia
brothel — noun VERB + BROTHEL ▪ go to, visit ▪ He used to visit a brothel on the outskirts of town. ▪ run ▪ His aunt ran a brothel. ▪ She ran a bro … Collocations dictionary
brothel — [14] Originally, brothel was a general term of abuse for any worthless or despised person (John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis 1393, writes: ‘Quoth Achab then, there is one, a brothel, which Micheas hight [who is called Micheas]’); it was a… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
brothel — [14] Originally, brothel was a general term of abuse for any worthless or despised person (John Gower, in his Confessio Amantis 1393, writes: ‘Quoth Achab then, there is one, a brothel, which Micheas hight [who is called Micheas]’); it was a… … Word origins
brothel — brothellike, adj. /broth euhl, brodh , braw theuhl, dheuhl/, n. a house of prostitution. [1350 1400 for earlier sense; short for brothel house whore house; ME brothel harlot, orig. worthless person, equiv. to broth (ptp. s. of brethen, OE… … Universalium
brothel — UK [ˈbrɒθ(ə)l] / US [ˈbrɑθ(ə)l] noun [countable] Word forms brothel : singular brothel plural brothels a place where men pay to have sex with prostitutes … English dictionary