What is another word for bawdyhouses?

Pronunciation: [bˈɔːdɪhˌa͡ʊzɪz] (IPA)

Bawdyhouses, also known as brothels, are places that offer sexual services in exchange for money. Although it is an outdated term, there are still several other words that can be used interchangeably to mean the same thing. Some of the common synonyms for bawdyhouses include whorehouse, bordello, cathouse, and house of ill repute. These terms are often used in literature, films and television shows set in the past when bawdyhouses were more common. However, they are still used today to describe places where sex work is conducted illegally. Despite the different terms used to define it, bawdyhouses have often been a source of controversy and remain illegal in many parts of the world.

What are the hypernyms for Bawdyhouses?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with Bawdyhouses

  • Thus the ideal of democracy is reached at last: it has become a psychic impossibility for a gentleman to hold office under the Federal Union, save by a combination of miracles that must tax the resourcefulness even of God. The fact has been rammed home by a constitutional amendment: every office-holder, when he takes oath to support the Constitution, must swear on his honour that, summoned to the death-bed of his grandmother, he will not take the old lady a bottle of wine.The remedy, it seems to me, is quite as absurd as all the other sure cures that Liberals advocate. When they argue for it, they simply argue, in words but little changed, that the remedy for prostitution is to fill the bawdyhouses with virgins. My impression is that this last device would accomplish very little: either the virgins would leap out of the windows, or they would cease to be virgins.
    H. L. Mencken

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