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bordels

bordels is the plural of bordel.

Meaning of bordel

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

Questions about bordels

What is bordels the plural of?
Bordels is the plural of bordel.

Words near bordels in the dictionary

  1. bordello
  2. bordelloes
  3. bordellos
  4. Bordelon
  5. Bordelons
  6. bordels
  7. Borden
  8. Borden County
  9. Borden-Carleton
  10. Bordenet
  11. Bordenets

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