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
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
But then, Europe has always been more generous to jazz; Americans have never quite forgiven jazz its bastard birth in the bordellos of New Orleans' Storyville.
From Time Magazine Archive
Out of a West Indian yarn of high-toned rival bordellos, of Mardi gras and cockfights and voodoo worship, spill brilliant color, exotic fragrance and tropical profusion.
From Time Magazine Archive
