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brothel

noun
🔊/ˈbrɒθl/
🔊/ˈbrɑːθl/
(also bordello especially in North American English)
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  1. a house where people pay to have sex with prostitutes妓院
    • He used to visit a brothel in Paris.他以前常到巴黎的一家妓院。
    • She ran a brothel in Soho.她在索霍区开了一家妓院。
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + brothel
    • go to
    • visit
    • run
    • …
    brothel + noun
    • keeper
    • owner
    preposition
    • in a/​the brothel
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    Word Originmid 16th cent. (originally brothel-house): from late Middle English brothel ‘worthless man, prostitute’, related to Old English brēothan ‘degenerate, deteriorate’.