bordeller
Danish
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editbordeller n
Middle English
editEtymology
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editbordeller
- a keeper or a frequenter of a brothel
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- Thaise out of his barge he hente,
And to this bordeller hir solde.
And he, that be hire body wolde Take- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
edit- “bordeller”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Norwegian Bokmål
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edit- bordell n
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Swedish
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