bordello
Example Sentences
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Reid was born in the desolate mining town of Searchlight, Nevada, his father a hard-rock miner who later committed suicide, his mother doing laundry at home for bordellos.
From Seattle Times
His mother was a laundress in a bordello, Reid grew up in a small cabin without indoor plumbing.
From Seattle Times
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
Okay, you take some perfectly good vinegar and infuse it with perfumes that make it smell like the anteroom of a 19th-century San Francisco bordello.
From Washington Post
“La Grange,” their big hit on “Tres Hombres,” was about a bordello.
From New York Times
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