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† ˈbordel Obs.
Forms: 4–9 bordel, (4 ? bordeal), 5–7 bordell, 5 bordele, bourdel(l, bordyl(le, burdell, 6 Sc. bo(i)rdall, 8 bourdel.
[a. OF. bordel ‘cabin, hut, brothel’, corresp. to Pr. bordel, Sp. burdel, It. bordello, med.L. bordellus, -um, dim. of late L. borda (? or of *bordum): see bordar. (Now superseded by brothel, which has no etymological connexion with it.)]
1. A house of prostitution, a brothel.
c1305St. Lucy 92 in E.E.P. (1862) 104 Oþer to comun bordel beo ilad oþer ibore. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋811 Harlottis, that haunten bordels of these foule wommen. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 84/2, I wente to the bourdel. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 276 Semdill in the kirk and richt oft in the bordell. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 79 To make a Bordell of my Masters house. a1722S. Centlivre Marplot iii. i. 153 Egad, maybe it is some private Bourdel. 1828Scott F.M. Perth viii, As if they were in a bordel at Paris. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. viii, That this universe..was a Cookery-shop and Bordel.
b. Prostitution, fornication. [Cf. OF. faire bordel de.]
1382Wyclif Lev. xix. 29 Ne putt thow thi douȝter to bordel. 1393Gower Conf. II. 162 All his rent In wine and bordel he despent. c1440Gesta Rom. (1879) 220.
2. A worthless fellow, a good-for-nothing. (Erroneously used for brothel 1, as on the other hand brothel has taken the place of bordel in sense 1.)
1474Caxton Chesse 104 He drof and chased out of the hoost moo than two thousand bourdellys.
3. attrib. and Comb., as bordel woman, bordel house.
1382Wyclif Baruch vi. 11 Of it thei ȝeuen to pute in bordel house, and ournen hooris. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋902 Commune bordeal womman. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. cxcvii. 175 Holy chirche tho had no more reuerence than it had ben a bordelhows. 1541Elyot Image Govt. (1549) 6 In common baines and bordell houses.
¶ Chatterton (misled by Kersey: cf. Phillips 1706) took bordel in the OF. sense of ‘cot’.
a1780Chatterton Wks. (ed. Skeat) I. 203 Would'st thou ken Nature in her better part? Goe, searche the logges and bordels of the hynde. |