英语词汇“brothelry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

brothelry

释义

† ˈbrothelry Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ry.]
1. Lewdness; harlotry.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries ii. (1550) 29 He fell to the talke of as fyne brothelry, as anye craftes man in that art myght vtter.1569J. Sandford Agrippa's Van. Artes 97 Brothelrie is the Arte of abandoninge the proper chastitie to all men.1605B. Jonson Volpone Ded.1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 14 Pestilent uses of turpitude and brothelry.
2. A place of prostitutes.
1593Marlowe Lust's Domin. i. iii, Whilst you at home suffer'd his bedchamber To be a brothelry.1616Dekker Sev. Sinnes ii. (Arb.) 22 Thou makest thy buildings a Brothelry to others.

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