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
There’s almost this wink at the end where Fanny says, By the way, Charles brought our son to bawdy houses so he could be educated just as Charles was.
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Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2025
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
Literary Hub, 30 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bawdy house
brothel
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Of the girls in that cohort, many were sold to brothels in Asia; others were shipped to pimps in Europe or married off to pedophiles abroad.—
Natalia Paradies,
Rolling Stone,
31 Oct. 2025
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Ibsen’s play takes place in George and Hedda’s front room over a two-day period, and the only nighttime debauchery happens offstage at one of Judge Brack’s bachelor parties, which spirals out of control when Lovborg gets into a fight at a brothel and loses his manuscript on the walk back to town.—
Rory Doherty,
Time,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Bawdy house.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bawdy%20house. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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