fleshhouse

Definitions

A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop.

rare

Examples

“To seek⟳ for things that are pure and good, instead of criticis and philosophies, that rise⟳ up out of thy contaminated fleshhouse.”

“He probably did most of his selling in the market place⟳; in the fifteenth century there was a special fleshhouse set⟳ aside for the fleshers to sell⟳ their wares.”

“The fleshhouses exist⟳ in defiance of all Vetris's suffocating religion and decorum, and maybe that's why I feel⟳ a little freer here, even if the hawkers sitting outside shout⟳ me down as I pass⟳ or the customers give⟳ me a leery eye every few steps.”

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