| 单词 | call house |
| 释义 | > as lemmascall house call house n. †(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 prostitutes are summoned by telephone; cf. call girl n. 2 (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > prostitution > [noun] > brothel houseOE bordelc1300 whorehousec1330 stew1362 bordel housec1384 stewc1384 stivec1386 stew-house1436 bordelryc1450 brothel house1486 shop?1515 bains1541 common house1545 bawdy-house1552 hothouse1556 bordello1581 brothela1591 trugging house1591 trugging place1591 nunnery1593 vaulting-house1596 leaping house1598 Pickt-hatch1598 garden house1606 vaulting-school1606 flesh-shambles1608 whore-sty1621 bagnioa1640 public house1640 harlot-house1641 warrena1649 academy1650 call house1680 coney burrow1691 case1699 nanny-house1699 house of ill reputea1726 smuggling-ken1725 kip1766 Corinth1785 disorderly house1809 flash-house1816 dress house1823 nanny-shop1825 house of tolerance1842 whore shop1843 drum1846 introducing house1846 khazi1846 fast house1848 harlotry1849 maison de tolérance1852 knocking-shop1860 lupanar1864 assignation house1870 parlour house1871 hook shop1889 sporting house1894 meat house1896 massage parlour1906 case house1912 massage establishment1921 moll-shop1923 camp1925 notch house1926 creep joint1928 slaughterhouse1928 maison de convenance1930 cat-house1931 Bovril1936 maison close1939 joy-house1940 rib joint1940 gaff1947 maison de passe1960 rap parlour1973 1680 St. Paul's Cathedral Building Accts. in 13th Vol. Wren Soc. (1936) 132 Takeing down the Call-house, and new setting up the same by the Passage gates. 1716 in Wren Soc. (1939) 16 124 Ordered..That this order be read to them [sc. the workers] in the Call-house by the Call-master. 1909 Juvenile Court Rec. Nov. 2/2 Hundreds of these girls..are summoned to the houses by telephone. The houses to which they are thus summoned are known as ‘call houses’. 1910 Royal Comm. Poor Laws: App. IX. 58/1 They have a call house, they sit there most of the week. When an employer wants an extra hand, he sends along to this call-house. 1929 W. R. Burnett Little Caesar vii. v. 270 Sometimes at night he would go to one of the call-houses on a nearby street and spend a couple of hours with one of the women. 1963 Arizona Republic 26 July 2/1 The sidewalk and call-house trade..has received a new spurt in recent months from an influx of shady characters from Algeria. 2009 J. Buntin L.A. Noir xii. 127 Stoker..asked him if he'd like to patronize Hollywood's most glamorous call house. < as lemmas |
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