Meaning of accommodation house | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A building offering board and lodging to travellers.
   historical
2. A building offering rooms to prostitutes and their clients for a short period in exchange for payment.
   euphemistic, historical

Examples

“Subsequently, being recalled, he testified that "the phrase 'is keeping an accommodation-house,' when applied to a woman, in Jasper county, in his opinion, mean the same as a house of ill-fame, or house of prostitution." On cross-examination, he said, "the phrase 'is keeping an accommodation-house,' when applied to a woman, means the same in Jasper county as it would in Newton county, or anywhere else. […]"”

“[…] it provides what is now accepted as a clearly authentic and valuable record of the Victorian sexual underworld and the people who frequented it. His descriptions are often vivid, such as his account of a visit to an accommodation house one summer morning […]”

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