fancy house

English

Noun

fancy house (plural fancy houses)

1. (euphemistic) A brothel.
   • 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 239:

     Turner probably visited Angel regularly. He paid for her fancy house.

   • 2013, Nevada Barr, Burn, →ISBN:

     From what I've been able to pry out of her the fancy house customers weren't allowed to hit.

   • 2017, J. B. Fisher, The Blessing of Pequea Sam, →ISBN:

     In turn as Liz's madam, Yolanda continually ran such a clean ship for Liz and made so much money, that she ended up with her own "fancy house".

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fancy,‎ house.