单词 | bordel keeper |
释义 | > as lemmasbordel keeper bordel keeper n. a person who owns or runs a brothel; = brothel keeper n. ΚΠ 1842 Penny Sunday Chron. 12 June 1/3 Bailiffs and bordel keepers are generally Jewish. 1914 Lancet 25 Apr. 1201/1 Those who live in bordels and hand more than half their profits to the ‘Madame’ or bordel-keeper. 1953 H. Massingham Wandering Eye ii. 46 She looked like an old bordel keeper, almost he expected her to make some lascivious suggestion, to beckon with one of those claws for the choicest girl in the house. 2006 M. Wan Orchid Shroud (2007) ii. 13 Henriette astutely sized her up as harder and more grasping than a bordel keeper. < as lemmas |
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