bordello
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9.6
- noun
- /bɔrˈdɛloʊ/
- NSFW
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- The old bordello had a red light outside that signaled its services to passersby.
Examples
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He starts the day on the floor of the drunk tank and ends it on a bed in a bordello.
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Sally stood in the oval doorway, wondering why this place looked like a sixties bordello nightmare.
Fiction book (1999) -
Are they talking about the bordello?
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You mean a bordello, Baron?
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Since the train for Paris was leaving only the next day, we stayed for the night in a decommissioned bordello.
Fiction book (1997) -
You didn't tell me that I was moving into a bordello, that's all.
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I would like to welcome you to our newest attraction here at the Thanagarian bordello.
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Nope, Rowland was a frequent customer of the bordello during my months of servitude.
Fiction book (1998) -
Very refined and fluent in several languages, she was already talked about for the inviting table settings she made in the bordello's dining room.
Fiction book (2001) -
We're here at the Lanville County Courthouse to ask some of the local citizens... how they feel about the infamous bordello... runnin' wide open in their American hometown.
Synonyms
77
6.3
A place where people pay to have sex with prostitutes
42
7.8
A building where people pay to have sex with prostitutes
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9.6
A place where people pay for sex
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8.9
A place where people pay to have sex
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7.6
A building where people pay for sex
A place where people pay for sex
A house where people pay for sex
A house where people go to pay for sex
A building where people pay for sex
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bordello comes from Italian and at first meant a small house where people 'stayed', and it is related to the English word board as in 'boarding house'. Over time the meaning shifted to a house where sexual services were sold, so today bordello means a brothel.