bawdy house

as in brothel
a building in which prostitutes are available a frontier mining town that had few diversions other than the local bawdy house

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Recent Examples of bawdy house The city has sued a handful of property owners seeking to label their properties as public nuisances under the state's bawdy house statute. Mary Spicuzza, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2019 There was probably at least one bawdy house, but it isn’t mentioned. Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, 7 Apr. 2018
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brothel
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  • De facto prostitution zones and pop-up brothels would depress real estate values and increase the strain on our overburdened city already grappling with affordability and quality-of-life issues.
    Sonia Ossorio, New York Daily News, 21 June 2025
  • One of the houses was secretly operating as a brothel.
    Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 16 June 2025

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“Bawdy house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bawdy%20house. Accessed 1 Jul. 2025.

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