Sense: a house of prostitution
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Synonyms
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- academy (euphemistic, jocular slang)
- bagnio
- bawdy house (historical, formal)
- bawdy-house (historical, formal)
- bawdyhouse (historical, formal)
- bordello
- brothel
- brothel house
- cat house (US, slang)
- cat-house (US, slang)
- cathouse (US, slang)
- common house (obsolete, euphemistic)
- disorderly house (historical)
- crib (slang)
- escort agency
- fuckhouse (vulgar)
- house of accommodation (archaic, euphemistic)
- house of ill fame (euphemistic)
- house of ill repute (euphemistic)
- knocking shop (chiefly Britain, slang)
- leaping house (obsolete)
- leaping-house (obsolete)
- lupanar (formal)
- nunnery (jocular slang)
- prostibule (rare)
- pushing school (archaic, jocular slang)
- riding academy (jocular slang)
- sporting house (jocular slang)
- stew (archaic)
- vaulting school (jocular slang)
- wapping ken (UK, archaic)
- whore-house (vulgar)
- whorehouse (vulgar)
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