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 Translation for 'brothel' from English to French
NOUN   a brothel | brothels
SYNO bagnio | bawdyhouse | bordello | ...
bordel {m}brothel
comm.sociol.
maison {f} close
brothel
comm.sociol.
maison {f} de passe
brothel
comm.sociol.
maison {f} de tolérance
brothel
occup.
sous-maîtresse {f} [mère maquerelle]
(brothel) madam
occup.sociol.
tenancier {m} de maison close
brothel-keeper
occup.sociol.
tenancière {f} de maison close
brothel-keeper [female]
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Usage Examples English
  • Mokbel was alleged to have laundered over $2 million through At the Top of the Town, a high-profile Melbourne CBD brothel which he purchased through a business associate.
  • Tandia finds a home in the brothel where Geldenhuis drops her.
  • She established a brothel in the Little Lon red light district in Melbourne in the mid 19th-century.
  • Salt Wells was the site of Salt Wells Villa, a brothel in operation from 1975.
  • Storey County officials changed the brothel licensing laws to prevent Burgess's non-licensed associates running the brothel and the brothel closed.

  • There is a single state-sanctioned brothel on the islands of Bonaire, The brothel in Curaçao closed in 2020.
  • When news reports say that Kinan was trapped in a brothel for twenty years, they're referring to the brothel named Sheik.
  • In her 2007 report, "Prostitution and trafficking in Nevada: making the connections", Melissa Farley presents the results of numerous interviews with brothel owners and prostitutes, she says that most brothel prostitutes are controlled by outside pimps and that they suffer widespread abuse by brothel owners and customers.
  • In southern and central Germany, where public brothels were much more common than in the north, brothels typically operated on a leaseholder model which saw a brothel-keeper ("Frauenwirt/in") pay civic authorities for the right to run the brothel.
  • Johanna Wolf (1841-floruit 1889), was an Austrian-Hungarian brothel owner, procurer and madam.

  • Jurjentje continued to run the brothel with the assistance of her daughter Jacoba.
  • Unwilling to become the play thing of the Emperor, Yu-yee escapes from the palace but in doing so falls into the hands of slavers who sell her on to a brothel.
  • The Chicken Ranch is a legal, licensed brothel located about [...] west of Las Vegas near the town of Pahrump, in Nye County, at 10511 Homestead Road.
  • During the last days that the brothel was open the band [...] performed there and recorded interviews. They released an album "Live at Brothel Angel's Ladies" in October 2015.
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