bordello

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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 New Italian sketches by Symonds, John Addington