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Bordello   /bɔrdˈɛlˌoʊ/   Listen
Bordello

noun
1.
A building where prostitutes are available.  Synonyms: bagnio, bawdyhouse, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse.






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"Bordello" Quotes from Famous Books



... you, Under pretence to shun your Brother's Anger: But 'twas indeed to spread your Fame abroad. But being not satisfy'd till in Madrid, Here in your native Town, I had proclaim'd you; The House from whence your Brother's Fury chas'd us, Was a Bordello, where 'twas given out Thou wert a Venice Curtezan to hire, Whilst you believ'd it was your nuptial ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. I (of 6) • Aphra Behn

... filled with poetry; the reflective element does not dominate severely. Bordello's youthful genius craves sympathy, and he finds it by investing Nature with fanciful forms and attributes. He is Apollo,—"that shall be the name." How he ransacks the world for his youth's outfit, as he climbs the ravine in the June weather, and emerges ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various

... other evening when you addressed me in such gracious words, I was so treacherously inflamed, that not knowing my happiness to be so near, and not daring to confess my flame to you, I ran to a Bordel where all the gentleman go, and there for love of you, and to save the honour of my brother whose head I should blush to dishonour, I was so badly infected that I am in great danger of dying of ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... provinces of France, the rest being Provencal-Italian literature. The Italian Troubadours, by which I mean those born in Italy, who must at least be cited, are Malaspina, Lanfranc Cicala, Bartolomeo Ziorgi (of Venice), Bordello (of Mantua), etc. ...
— Initiation into Literature • Emile Faguet

... man succumb to the plaster charms of some prancing miss, and all his friends will wonder what is the matter with him. No two are in accord as to which is the most beautiful woman in their own town or street. Turn six of them loose in millinery shop or the parlour of a bordello, and there will be no dispute whatsoever; each will offer the crown of love and beauty to a ...
— In Defense of Women • H. L. Mencken



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