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bawdy house

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Definition of bawdy house

: brothel
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Examples of bawdy house in a Sentence

a frontier mining town that had few diversions other than the local bawdy house

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 There was probably at least one bawdy house, but it isn’t mentioned. — Arthur Hart, idahostatesman, "Idaho’s mining towns had some interesting saloon names, fleeting businesses, tooth decay | Idaho Statesman," 7 Apr. 2018

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1552, in the meaning defined above

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