whorehousen.

c1330 Seven Sages (Auch.) (1933) l. 1370 He comeȝ nou fram þe hore hous!

c1400 tr. Aelred of Rievaulx De Institutione Inclusarum (Vernon) (1984) 28 A blessed mayden, þat turnde an hoore-hows in-to an oratorie.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 804/10 Hoc lupaner, Hec fornix, Hoc prostibulum, a horehowse.

?c1599 J. Davies & C. Marlowe Epigrammes & Elegies sig. D Sometimes he comes not to the play, But falles into a whore house by the way.

1608 T. Dekker Lanthorne & Candle-light sig. G4^v The plague that a Whore-house layes vpon a Citty.

1688 J. Bunyan Last Serm. in Wks. (1862) II. 757 A whore-house, it may be, is more sweet to him.

1747 Merlinus Liberatus At Rome at one Time were computed 45000 Whore-Houses, which since that are doubled or trebled.

1909 in J. A. & A. Lomax Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs (1960) 104 Frankie went down to de whore-house, Rang de whore-house bell, Says ‘Tell me, is my lovin' Albert here? Caze Frankie's gwine to raise some hell—Oh, he's my man, but he's a-doin' me wrong.’

1951 J. Masters Nightrunners of Bengal i. vi. 82 Every one knew her as the madam of a high-grade whore-house.

2018 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 28 Apr. Many women often figured predominantly in the community—owning and running many of the pubs and whorehouses.

1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia sig. C6 A painted wench is like a whore-house signe, The old new slurred ouer.

1909 in J. A. & A. Lomax Amer. Ballads & Folk Songs (1960) 104 Frankie went down to de whore-house, Rang de whore-house bell, Says ‘Tell me, is my lovin' Albert here? Caze Frankie's gwine to raise some hell—Oh, he's my man, but he's a-doin' me wrong.’

1953 S. Bellow Adventures of Augie March xi. 225 He was a tío listo, a carnival type, a whorehouse visitor.

2004 M. Tea Rent Girl (2005) 147 Every whorehouse owner-operator liked to imagine theirs the cream of the crop, a real high-class enterprise.

1938 D. Baker Young Man with Horn iii. i. 141 You certainly play whorehouse piano, fella, and nigger whorehouse at that.

1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 295 This rich and earthy piano playing, called by extreme jazz purists with an ear for the picturesquely accurate, ‘whore-house piano’.

1956 ‘B. Holiday’ & W. Dufty Lady sings Blues i. 16 I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse... A lot of white people first heard jazz in places like Alice Dean's, and they helped label jazz ‘whorehouse music’.

1996 CMJ New Music Monthly July 13 Hot is straight-up whorehouse jazz, a rollicking, roiling sound that'll sweep up anyone with a sense of rhythm.

2016 @JohBinks 11 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 10 June 2019) Loving the plinky plonky whorehouse piano version of Black Hole Sun.

1916 People of N.Y. against Ralph Guarano: Case on Appeal (N.Y. Supreme Court: Appellate Div., 1st Dept.) 244 Q. And the lady was supposed to be the whore house madam? A. Yes, sir.

1975 G. V. Higgins City on Hill vi. 150 When you try to talk about something else, it's like trying to discuss cryogenics with a whorehouse madam.

2014 @KateCooperOwen 14 Dec. in twitter.com (accessed 10 June 2019) I put on some old perfume and now I honestly smell like a whorehouse madam.

1949 R. Chandler Little Sister xvii. 110 A very cheap grade of whore-house perfume.

2008 D. Lehane Given Day xiv. 605 Frazee's office smelled like whorehouse perfume and old money.