borˈdello
Also 6–8 burdello.
[a. It. bordello: see bordel.]
= bordel.
| 1598 B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. ii, From the Burdello, it might come as well. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 109 Proceed now to the afternoon; in Playhouses, he says, and the Bordelloes. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) IV. 23. 1794 T. J. Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 69 The stews and bordellos of Grecian and Roman antiquity. 1930 E. Pound XXX Cantos xxviii. 130 And was lodged in a bordello (promptly). 1961 J. Heller Catch-22 (1962) xxiii. 236 The distant recesses of the strange and marvellous bordello. |