α. late Middle English brothellus house, 1500s brothelles house.
β. 1500s brodel house.
γ. 1500s–1600s brothell house, 1500s– brothel house.
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| 单词 | brothel house |
| 释义 | brothel housen.α. late Middle English brothellus house, 1500s brothelles house. β. 1500s brodel house. γ. 1500s–1600s brothell house, 1500s– brothel house. A house or other premises where (esp. female) prostitutes engage in sexual activity with (typically male) clients; = brothel n. 3.Cf. earlier bordel house n.In earliest use in the genitive compound brothel's house; cf. brothel n. 2a. ΚΠ 1486 J. Mirk's Liber Festiuall (Rood & Hunte) sig. hiv/2 He..wente ayene to a brothellus house [a1450 Claud. bordel-hous, 1483 Caxton bordell hows] as he was vsed to doo. 1510 A. Chertsey tr. Floure Commaundementes of God (de Worde) i. xxxv. f. lxxxiiiiv/1 The stewys or brodelhouse of the sayd communes ben taken from the lawes cyuyles in some communytes for to eschewe & auoyde a more grete yll. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 201/2 Brothelleshouse, bordel. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezek. xvi. 39 [They] shal breake downe thy stewes, and destroye thy brodel houses. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 236 Hang me vp at the doore of a brothel house for the signe of blinde Cupid. 1678 Young Man's Calling 273 Thou shalt be..put into the common stews & brothel-houses. 1783 H. Bright Praxis 72 The Moment you give up yourself to Gaming for high Stakes, unseasonable Banqueting, and impure Brothel-Houses. 1872 North-China Herald 21 Mar. 234/1 The proximity of brothel houses and other places of dissipation greatly interferes with the rapid transaction of public business. 1934 Times of India 21 Dec. 7/7 As soon as he [sc. the city magistrate] finished with gambling dens..he intends to raid brothel houses. 2021 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post (Nexis) 15 Sept. Police have shut down an alleged prostitution ring and brothel house operating out of Mount Airy. Compounds General use as a modifier, as in brothel house keeper, brothel house owner, etc. ΚΠ 1584 T. Lodge Alarum against Vsurers f. 3 This harlot is an old beaten dogge, and a maintainer of the brothell house brotherhoode. 1675 J. Smith tr. Lactantius in Christian Relig. Appeal iv. xii. 114 Give me a Fornicator, an Adulterer, a Brothel-house-haunter; And thou shalt, by and by see him sober, chaste, continent. 1694 Reformer Rack'd 20 No Brothel-House-Pander is able to Match Pimping and Prostitution with her. 1830 Age 5 Sept. 287/2 They are in the pay of publicans, gambling, and brothel house-keepers. 1889 Leeds Times 24 Aug. 7/4 Detective Cousins said that he had known the prisoner for a long time as a brothel-house keeper. 1949 Sarasota (Florida) Herald-Tribune 28 July 2/5 Recorded conversations between police and brothel house keeper Brenda Allen. 2019 Conversation (Nigeria) (Nexis) 19 June Their [sc. traffickers] clients include plantation agriculturists, brothel house owners, and middle-class urban households. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < |
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