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disorderly houses

noun

plural of disorderly house
as in brothels
a building in which prostitutes are available the penalty for anyone convicted of running a disorderly house in the city

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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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