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A brothel is a house where men pay to have sex with prostitutes. It is a direct, dictionary word — the kind you meet in news, history, and older stories. It names the place, not the people. In careful modern talk, some people prefer other phrases, but brothel is still the standard English word for that kind of house. It is not a joke word, and it is not a word for a normal home. The history is a bit messy: it comes from an old word for a person seen as low or ruined, then brothel-house, and the house part dropped away; another old word, bordel, pushed it in the same direction. It has nothing to do with , even though the beginning looks the same.
組成Short for brothel-house. Brothel once meant a ruined or low person, from an old Germanic verb “to fall apart”; later it named the house. Influenced by bordel.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
brothelnoun詞源 1/ˈbɹɔθəl/
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A house of prostitution.
- Thus, during the last four years, I have visited brothels about every ten days or two weeks. Only seldom does coitus fail; for I have learned my peculiarities, and in the choice of a prostitute know immediately whether she will excite me or have no effect.
- Only women already existing in the social margins became actresses.²⁶ For example, celebrated tragedienne Elizabeth Barry was an orphan, Nell Gwynn a barmaid raised in a brothel, Moll Davis the illegitimate daughter of a Colonel. Other actresses were the wives and daughters of male actors, as for example Mary Saunderson (Mrs Betterton) and (in a later period) Mrses Kean, Kemble and Siddons.
brothelnoun詞源 2/ˈbɹɔθəl/
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obsoleteA wretch; a depraved or lewd person.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。