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brothel

[broth-uhl, broth-, braw-thuhl, -thuhl] / ˈbrɒθ əl, ˈbrɒð-, ˈbrɔ θəl, -ðəl /


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There, the hard-working seven-person cast of “Dark Noon,” which opened on Monday, spends much of the production’s 105 minutes assembling the edifices of westward-creeping American civilization, from home to brothel to church to jail.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

He’s penned several children’s books and a novella called “The Legend of Diddley Squatt,” loosely inspired by the life of the late comedian Richard Pryor, who grew up in a brothel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2023

How did you approach the different Louises: the brothel owner, the legit businessman, the centenarian?

From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022

He teamed it with a silver neck chain and earring plus white brothel creepers for extra height.

From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2022

The sept tempted him no more than the brothel; his own gods kept their temples in the wild places, where the weirwoods spread their bone-white branches.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Starting this weekend, brothels and bars will have earlier closing times and a ban on smoking cannabis on the streets in and around the Red Light District comes into force in May.

From BBC ● Mar. 28, 2023

The two countries have long been at odds over restitution for Koreans forced to work in Japanese firms and military brothels during Japan's 1910-45 colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula.

From Reuters ● Aug. 19, 2021

The Tabor Opera House quickly grabbed the attention of a bustling, rowdy city full of competing theaters, saloons and brothels.

From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2021

He rejected accounts of forced labor as "pure fiction," saying the Japanese army "did not dragoon Korean women to work in its brothels."

From Fox News ● Mar. 8, 2021

Even in 1975, the Saints had some influence in Salt Lake, and the bars and brothels were pretty shameful places, where no respectable person would be caught.

From A Place so Foreign by Cory Doctorow


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