Meaning of fleshhouse | Babel Free

Definitions

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

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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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