Word Meanings - BROTHELRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.
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- BROTHELRY
Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson. - OBSCENITY
That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. Mr.Cowley asserts plainly, that - BROTHELER
One who frequents brothels. - BROTHEL
A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse. (more info) worthless fellow, fr. AS. beró to ruin, destroy; cf. AS. breótan to break, and E. brittle. The term brothel house was confused with - EMBROTHEL
To inclose in a brothel. Donne.