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bordellos

noun

plural of bordello

as in brothels

a building in which prostitutes are available the cabdriver offered to show me where he claimed the most infamous bordello in town used to be

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Recent Examples of bordellos Houses could be rented for $15 a week and converted into bars, bordellos and gambling dens, with liquor licenses and health certificates optional. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Apr. 2026

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brothels

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In December, Santa Clara County officials charged members of a different family with running a network of 10 brothels in cities that included Cupertino.

— Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Though Diestel went on to make clear that no one was proposing to turn bedrooms into brothels, introducing sexuality into a sacred context was enough to shake the little world of interconnected townspeople.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 17 Aug. 2026

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