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bordel

bordel noun: a brothel.

Noun

bordel (plural bordels)

  1. (archaic) A brothel.
    • Appropriately enough she had given him a rendezvous (for the marriage) at the old Sphinx, opposite the Gare Montparnasse, where the respectable exterior – a family café, where families up from the country came to eat an ice and wat for their train – masked a charming bordel with a high gallery and...1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 470

Forms of bordel

pluralbordels

Origin of bordel

From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”). Doublet of bordello. By surface analysis, Latin borda + -el (“diminutive”).

Questions about bordel

What does bordel mean?
Bordel means a brothel.
What part of speech is bordel?
Bordel is a noun.
What is the plural of bordel?
The plural of bordel is bordels.

Words near bordel in the dictionary

  1. Bordeauxes
  2. Bordeauxs
  3. bordei
  4. Bordei Verde
  5. bordeis
  6. bordel
  7. Bordelais
  8. bordelaise
  9. Bordelaise sauce
  10. Bordelaise sauces
  11. bordelaises

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