Definition of "bawdyhouse" [baw•dy•house]

• A house of prostitution. (noun)

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• "He exposed a widely tolerated bawdyhouse known as the Chicken Ranch in La Grange."
• "“You were as drunk as a lord last time I saw you, and about to go off to the bawdyhouse with that wench…Lord, she had an arse on her,” he added reminiscently."
• "Wasn't hardly nobody comin" by the bawdyhouse where I was at, either, what with so many men bein" away to the war."