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brothel

[ broth-uhl, broth-, braw-thuhl, -thuhl ]

noun

  1. a house of prostitution.


brothel

/ ˈɒθə /

noun

  1. a house or other place where men pay to have sexual intercourse with prostitutes
  2. informal.
    any untidy or messy place
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Other Word Forms

  • dzٳı· adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brothel1

First recorded in 1350–1400, for an earlier sense; short for brothel-house “wǰdzܲ”; Middle English brothel “harlot,” originally, “worthless person,” from broth- (past participle stem of brethen, Old English ŧdzٳ󲹲 “to decay, degenerate”) + -el, noun suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of brothel1

C16: short for brothel-house , from C14 brothel useless person, from Old English ŧdzٳ󲹲 to deteriorate; related to briethel worthless
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Of course, that marriage ended in divorce, though it wasn’t finalized until after Odom recovered from overdosing at a brothel in Nevada in 2015.

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She added that Robert Rodgers facilitated meetings between the women and sex buyers at a brothel, which he ran from his home in north Belfast.

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The conference tables were imaginatively reconfigured by the design collective dots for the surreal brothel scene, and the lighting of Marika Kent made wild magic without disrupting the minimalist scheme.

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Those who do have criminal records include migrants with arrests on charges ranging from murder, fentanyl trafficking and kidnapping to home invasion and operating a gang-run brothel, according to the Trump administration.

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On his time as chief whip, Hart's book contains anonymised and shocking stories of MPs in various compromising positions - including accounts of sexual harassment and visits to brothels.

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