Any of various buildings frequented or occupied by people but not necessarily or primarily used as… A bawdy house, brothel.

A house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes engage in sexual activity with (typically male) clients; a brothel. Cf. bordello, n. Now…

A house or other premises where prostitutes are available; a brothel.

A brothel. (Developed from sense 3, on account of the frequent use of the public hot-air bath-houses… In plural (chiefly collective; sometimes, a…

a house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes are available; a brothel.

A brothel. (Developed from sense 3, on account of the frequent use of the public hot-air bath-houses… in singular. Obsolete.

= stew, n.1 4.

A stews.

A house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes engage in sexual activity with (typically male) clients; a brothel. Cf. bordel, n.

A house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes engage in sexual activity with (typically male) clients; = brothel, n. 3.

An establishment in which a prostitute receives clients; a brothel. Cf. knocking-shop, n. Now rare.

in plural. Stews; = bagnio, n. 3.

A brothel. Cf. public house, n. 3. Now rare.

a brothel.

A brothel. Cf. bagnio, n. 3, stew, n.2 4. Now historical and rare.

A house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes engage in sexual activity with (typically male) clients; a brothel. Cf. bordel, n. 1a.

A house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes engage in sexual activity with (typically male) clients. Cf. earlier bordel, n. 1a.

The activity or profession of a trug (trug, n.2); prostitution. Only in †trugging place, trugging house: a brothel.

The activity or profession of a trug (trug, n.2); prostitution. Only in †trugging place, trugging house: a brothel.

slang. A brothel. Now historical.

vaulting-house, a brothel. Also vaulting-door, the door of such a place. Obsolete.

a brothel.

The (former) district of Pickt-hatch in London, considered as a haunt of prostitutes. Hence allusively: any place frequented by prostitutes and…

As the type of a building used for illicit romantic or sexual assignations, esp. (in the 17th cent.) a brothel, a bawdy house. Obsolete.

vaulting-school. = sense 3.

A brothel.

a brothel.

A brothel, a house of prostitution. (Cf. similar application of stew, n.2)

A brothel. Now rare.

a brothel.

A building or settlement likened to a rabbit-warren; †a brothel; a building or cluster of dwellings (esp. if partly underground) densely populated…

slang. In extended and humorous use: a brothel. Obsolete.

†(a) a place for labourers to congregate for a call to work or for work instructions (obsolete); (b) (U.S.) a brothel, spec. one to which the…

figurative. derogatory. A place in which prostitutes are housed; a brothel. rare (now historical).

slang. A house, esp. one used as a brothel. Cf. to case up 2 at case, v.1 phrasal verbs, case keeper, n. 1. Now rare.

A brothel.

(also house of ill fame, †house of evil fame): a house regarded as disreputable, esp. a brothel.

A brothel.

A house of ill-fame, a brothel. Also in combinations.

Allusively: A house of ill fame.

spec. in Law. Violating public order or morality; constituting a nuisance; esp. in disorderly house (see quot. 1877); disorderly person, one…

A house frequented by ‘flash’ persons (see flash, adj.3 5); a resort of thieves; also, a brothel.

a brothel.

A brothel.

= maison de tolérance n. at maison, n. compounds.

a brothel.

slang (originally British). A house or other dwelling; a room or establishment for accommodation or recreation; spec. (a) a drinking-place or…

(see quots.).

A house. Occasionally: spec. (a) a brothel; (b) a public house. Now rare.

a house regarded as disreputable, esp. a brothel; now somewhat rare (archaic in later use).

A brothel. Obsolete.

a licensed brothel.

A brothel.

A brothel.

attributive (sense 7), assignation house (U.S.), a brothel.

(a) a house having a parlour; (b) U.S. slang an expensive type of brothel.

a brothel.

a building in which sport or entertainment may be found; esp. a house of ill repute; a brothel, a gambling den.

slang. A brothel. Cf. meat, n. 6.

(a) euphemistic (originally U.S.), a brothel operating under the guise of providing massage; (b) an establishment offering therapeutic massage.

a brothel.

= massage parlour n. (a).

a brothel.

U.S. slang (now rare or disused). An establishment, premises, etc., associated with immorality, criminal activity, sexual licence, etc.; spec. a…

slang. A brothel.

(a) a brothel or unwholesome apartment-house, esp. one where patrons are robbed; (b) a gambling-game operating in a different location each night.

slang. A cheap brothel.

a brothel.

(a) (see 6 above); (b) a house for cats; (c) slang a brothel.

British slang (humorous or euphemistic). A brothel. Now rare.

a brothel.

a brothel.

(a) slang. a brothel (rare) (b) colloquial an informal restaurant serving pork ribs and other barbecued food.

spec. A brothel; a prostitute's room.

an establishment in which rooms are rented, usually on an hourly basis, esp. to prostitutes and their clients.

= rap club n. (a).