Meaning of disorderly house | Babel Free

Definitions

A brothel.

dated, euphemistic

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Examples

“But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have⟳ acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses […].”

“Pekara, along with Officers Robert Margelewski and Roger O'Brien then ordered the theater lights turned on and began making arrests. Sixteen men were charged as inmates of a disorderly house and the cashier was arrested as the keeper of a disorderly house. The man from Elgin was arrested on charges of soliciting an act of prostitution.”

“Four years ago Cynthia Payne was sentenced to 18 months’ imprisonment for keeping a disorderly house. Madam Sin of Streatham gave the popular newspapers everything they had ever wished for – kinky sex, anonymous Top People, a police raid and, the most intriguing element of all, payment by Luncheon Voucher.”

“Her crime was less dramatic: she was found guilty of keeping a disorderly house by the Westminster magistrate Sir John Gonson […].”

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