bawdyhouse
House of prostitution
A bawdyhouse is a brothel—a place where prostitutes work.
The word sounds old-fashioned and appears mostly in historical contexts or legal language: The madam ran a bawdyhouse on the edge of town.
It combines bawdy (lewdly humorous or sexual) with house.
Commercial sex establishment
- red-light districtZone of sex commerce
- madamFormal address for women
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
- courtesanPaid aristocratic companion
demimonde · Victorian · tenderloin · vice squad · fallen women · scarlet woman · seraglio · harlot
Criminal public disturbance charge
- nuisanceCause of aggravation
- vagrancyOffense of rootless wandering
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
- vice lawsStatutes prohibiting immoral conduct
prosecution · raid · arrest · shuttered · condemned · ordinance · statute · enforcement
Grimly poor, socially unjust
- period dramaStory set in past
- costume dramaHistorical fiction with ornate attire
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
- cobblestonesRounded paving stones
petticoats · bodice · rouge · saloon · tavern · gin palace · Hogarth · moral tale
bordello
Commercial sex establishment
- red-light districtZone of sex commerce
- madamFormal address for women
- prostitutionCommercial sexual services
courtesan · demimonde · Victorian · tenderloin · vice squad · fallen women · scarlet woman · seraglio · harlot · streetwalker
disorderly conduct
Criminal public disturbance charge
- nuisanceCause of aggravation
- vagrancyOffense of rootless wandering
- solicitationSeeking to obtain
vice laws · prosecution · raid · arrest · shuttered · condemned · ordinance · statute · enforcement · citation
Dickensian
Grimly poor, socially unjust
- period dramaStory set in past
- costume dramaHistorical fiction with ornate attire
- gaslightDistort someone's reality
cobblestones · petticoats · bodice · rouge · saloon · tavern · gin palace · Hogarth · moral tale · melodrama