Word Meanings - BROTHELRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.

Related words: (words related to BROTHELRY)

• BROTHELRY
  Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.
• OBSCENITY
  That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a speech, or a picture. Mr.Cowley asserts plainly, that
• BROTHELER
  One who frequents brothels.
• BROTHEL
  A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse. (more info) worthless fellow, fr. AS. beró to ruin, destroy; cf. AS. breótan to break, and E. brittle. The term brothel house was confused with
• EMBROTHEL
  To inclose in a brothel. Donne.