单词 | brothel-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈbrothel-like ˈbrothel-like adj. resembling or characteristic of a brothel; befitting a brothel. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [adjective] > relating to or like brothel stewed1532 stewisha1555 brothelsome1617 brothel-like1767 1767 H. Kelly Mem. Magdalen II. xix. 139 Why am I..beset in my own lodgings, and treated with all the illiberal freedoms of a brothel-like audacity? 1803 R. Southey in Ann. Rev. 1 41 We will not transcribe Mr. Fischer's brothel-like description. 1949 Stud. Philol. 46 488 The likeness of Cupid appears in a brothel-like hotel room. 2006 Burlington Mag. May 352/1 Mahon does not enter here into precisely whose erotic reveries were to be triggered by this brothel-like display. < as lemmas |
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