bordello

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a house or establishment where people pay for sexual services; a brothel

   The novel disguises the illegal bordello as an exclusive private club.

Borrowed in the late sixteenth century from Italian bordello, 'brothel,' from Old French bordel, originally a small hut or cabin and later a brothel. Old French bordel is a diminutive of borde, 'hut'; brothel is historically related through the same French word family.

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