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There is a long list of Synonym s; some are proper words but most are either Slang or Foreign Language words.

Other names for a brothel include:

Historical and rarer slang terms for brothels include:
  • bawdy house (also used as a legal term)

  • bordel (from the French )

  • Bovril

  • case (compare Spanish ''casa'' or Italian ''casa chiusa'')

  • 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 tolĂ©rance (''tolerated house'', i.e. licensed)

  • 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

  • used by Shakespeare ) Many of these are or originated as Euphemism s, and their variety is affected in part by the Euphemism Treadmill .



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