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单词 brothel haunting
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brothel haunting
b. With participles, agent nouns, and verbal nouns, forming compounds in which brothel expresses the object of the underlying verb, as in brothel haunting, brothel visiting (adjectives and nouns); brothel owner, etc.
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1605 R. Jefferay Sonne of Gods Entertainm. 30 The brothell-haunters, brothel-hunters, sappe-suckers and soakers.
1692 tr. Sallust Wks. 17 The Rage of adulterous Lust, of Brothel-haunting and other Bestialities.
1724 Love upon Tick xliii. 170 His humble Amusements of Brothel-Hunting, (and what Nature design'd him for).
1845 N.Y. Herald 7 May 2/2 The writer in the American Review..enumerates the potential agencies to which..Mr. Polk owes his election [as]..‘pocket-book droppers’, ‘brothel-owners and bullies’ [etc.].
1892 Kate Field's Washington 13 Jan. 28/1 After dinner and prayers, the officers who do lodging house and brothel visiting start on their rounds.
1994 Guardian 29 Aug. i. 5/5 But councils have no real means of regulating standards since pimping—and, by extension, brothel-keeping—is technically illegal.
2005 D. Lambdin What lies Buried 9 But then it had been Corinthian, brothel-haunting Harry who'd almost ruined that one and only college year with the threats of expulsion.
2008 P. C. Cohen et al. Flash Press i. 45 It would take a rare type of brothel-going man to be as well versed in the cut of fabric and style of feminine outfits as this columnist proved to be.
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