brothels (noun)

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• red-light district — noun a district with many brothels • Hypernyms: ↑city district * * * ˌred ˈlight district [red light district red light districts] noun a part of a town where there are many ↑prostitutes   …   Useful english dictionary

• balum rancum — noun A dance, performed by a company of prostitutes naked. And just when did you last see decorous Sea Officers, Lewrie asked himself in wonder at such a ludicrous statement? Leaping rantipole and playing balum rancum in church? Hymn singing in… …   Wiktionary

• procuress — noun A female procurer. The Spaniard, who will seduce any girl he can, is pitiless under like circumstances to his own womenkind; so there is much weeping, the girl is turned out of doors and falls readily into the hands of the procuress. In the… …   Wiktionary

• brothelry — noun prostitution, especially in brothels …   Wiktionary

• comfort woman — noun A woman forced, or supposedly recruited, into brothels by the Japanese occupation forces during World War II …   Wiktionary

• red-light district — noun an area with many brothels, strip clubs, etc. Origin from the use of a red light as the sign of a brothel …   English new terms dictionary

• brothel — noun young girls from Nepal are sold to the owners of these brothels Syn: whorehouse, bordello, massage parlor, cathouse, bagnio; dated bawdy house, house of ill repute; Law, dated disorderly house …   Thesaurus of popular words

• Barbary Coast — noun 1. a part of a city that is notorious for gambling dens and brothels and saloons and riotous night life (especially the waterfront of San Francisco after the gold rush of 1849) we ll tolerate no Barbary Coast in this city! • Hypernyms: ↑city …   Useful english dictionary

• degeneracy — noun 1. moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles the luxury and corruption among the upper classes moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity Rome had fallen into moral… …   Useful english dictionary

• depravation — noun moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles the luxury and corruption among the upper classes moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration its brothels, its opium parlors, its depravity Rome had fallen into moral… …   Useful english dictionary

• putrefaction — noun 1. a state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor • Syn: ↑rot • Derivationally related forms: ↑rot (for: ↑rot), ↑putrefy • Hypernyms: ↑decay …   Useful english dictionary