bordello

Reid was born Dec. 2, 1939, the son of an alcoholic hard-rock miner who killed himself at 58 and a mother who served as a laundress in a bordello.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 28, 2021

Their on-the-fly street style — stitched together from 1920s bohemia, bordello chic, Victorian lace and mod leftovers — created the vintage rock look.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2015

This would not be because of your thighs, but because of the bordello setting, the Joan Collins–circa–Dynasty makeup, and the silly cheesiness of the final product.

From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2015

Picasso's 1904 oil-on-canvas masterpiece "La Celestina" shows a solitary, gray-haired bordello owner with a blinded eye.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2010

Gentile Becchi, the Florentine envoy at the Court of France, wrote to Piero de' Medici: 'If the King succeeds, it is all over with Italy—tutta a bordello.'

From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series by Brown, Horatio Robert Forbes

Activists, lawyers and Christian pastors are leading a petition drive to ban brothels in two Nevada counties, Nye and Lyon, and if successful the potential ballot initiatives would close nearly half the state’s bordellos.

From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018

The Clampers, according to the Frank C. Reilly Chapter of Northern California, have plaqued hundreds of places, “from ghost towns to saloons, from bordellos to ranchos, from heroes to madmen.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

Use too much, or a relentlessly ornate variety, and it can appear as if you look to frontier bordellos or the Addams Family for design inspiration.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 8, 2015

Before setting off for the Crusades seven centuries ago, Louis IX of France ordered the kingdom's bordellos closed.

From Time Magazine Archive

A bogey man flickered until last week through the shuttered bordellos of Havana, the rich red valleys of inland Cuba, the old Spanish fortresses of the coast.

From Time Magazine Archive