flash-house
[f. flash a.3 + house.]
A house frequented by ‘flash’ persons (see flash a.3 5); a resort of thieves; also, a brothel.
| 1816 Rep. Committee on Police Metrop. 209 Is the flash⁓house an assistance to the officer? 1828 Macaulay Ess., Hallam (1843) I. 192 The humours of a gang of footpads, revelling with their favourite beauties at a flash-house. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 434 You won't get a virgin in the flash houses. |