bordello n.
a brothel.
![]() | His First Fruites n.p.: Cinque cose che non sono necessarie in vna republica [...] vna bella donna in Bordello [etc] [...] Fiue thinges not needefull in a common Wealth, [...] a fayre whoore in the Stewes]. | |
![]() | Every Man In his Humour I i: From the Bordello, it might come as well, The Spittle, or Pict-hatch. | |
![]() | Essayes n.p.: Assemblies (where talke turnes the minde outward) are as perillous to an honest minde, as to receiue education in a Bordello. | |
![]() | Works II 175: Also crept into all the stewes, all the brothel-houses, and burdelloes of Italy . | |
![]() | Survey of London 448: Next, on this Banke, was sometime the Bordello or Stewes, a place so called, of certaine Stew-houses priviledged there, for the repaire of incontinent men to the like women;. | |
![]() | Visions, or Hels kingdome [trans.] 69: If the Canker enter not their magazin of store, and immoderate lust, convert all in Bordello. | |
![]() | Comdies & Tragedies 49: But that I thought thee dead, and in thy death / The brinie Ocean had entombd thy name; / I would have sought a wife in a Bordello. | |
![]() | Dutch Lover 48: The house from whence your Brothers fury chac’d us, / Was a Bordello, where ’twas given out / Thou wert a Venice Curtizan to hire. | |
![]() | Don Qixote [trans.] 11: [T]he skulking holes of Alsatia, the Academy of the Fleet, the Colledge of Newgate, the Purliews of Turnboll, and Pickt-Hatch; the Bordello’s of St. Giles's. | |
![]() | Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Bordel-lo a Bawdy-House. | |
![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |