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bordello

[ bawr-del-oh ]

noun

, plural bor·del·los.
  1. a brothel.


bordello

/ bɔːˈdɛləʊ /

noun

  1. a brothel Also called (archaic)bordelˈbɔːdəl
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bordello1

1590–1600; < Italian < Old French bordel bordel
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Word History and Origins

Origin of bordello1

C16: from Italian, from Old French borde hut, cabin
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Example Sentences

And the vermillion wall covering in the library that seemed very 19th-century bordello.

The Bangkok “fish tank” bordello is glitzy and businesslike.

When Heidi Fleiss announced she was opening a bordello for women, he sent his picture and received a positive response.

Hutz plays A.K., the frontman of a band called, yes, Gogol Bordello, who earns money on the side as a male dominator.

Surely he would have then concluded me as constant at the bordello, as the galley-slave at his oar.

But as with the bits of coloured glass in the kaleidoscope, the elements of Bordello's mind remain the same.

Sofas with shabby, mutilated upholstery in bordello scarlet.

Bordello's youthful genius craves sympathy, and he finds it by investing Nature with fanciful forms and attributes.

To pass for ever out of and beyond 170one's self is to the artist the lesson of Bordello's story.

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