Brothel
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Brothels are establishments specifically dedicated to prostitution and may be confined to special red-light districts in large cities. Those businesses have prostitutes who pay a fee to stay on the premises. When a patron arrives, he has the opportunity to choose a partner and the deal (i.e. which acts are going to be performed and how much the patron is going to be charged) is between the prostitute and her client. In some places, licensed brothels are legal.
There is a long list of synonyms; some are proper words but most are either slang or foreign language words.
Other names for a brothel include:
- bordello
- cathouse
- ranch
- whorehouse
- bawdy house (also used as a legal term)
- bordel (from the French)
- bovril
- case (compare Spanish casa or Italian casa chiusa)
- cathouse
- chicken house - Cantonese literal translation
- common-house*
- creep
- crib
- demimonde (from the French for underworld)
- dress-house
- drum
- flash-house
- flesh-shambles
- gaff
- harlot-house
- hook shop
- hot house*
- house of ill/evil repute/fame
- house of accommodation
- house of assignation
- house of joy
- house of horizontal refreshment
- joy-house
- juke
- kip
- knocking-shop
- leaping house
- lupanar (from Latin)
- maison close (French closed house)
- maison de passe (house of trick)
- maison de tolérance (House of Tolerance)
- massage parlour
- meat house
- moll-shop
- notch-house
- nunnery*
- panel-house
- parlour-house
- peg house
- picked hatch*
- public house
- rap club
- rib-joint
- slaughter-house
- smuggling-ken
- sporting-house
- stew
- trugging house/place
- vaulting house
- warren
- whore-shop/sty
Many of these are or originated as euphemisms, and their variety is affected in part by the euphemism treadmill.
See also
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