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disorderly houses

disorderly houses is the plural of disorderly house.

Meaning of disorderly house

Noun

disorderly house (plural disorderly houses)

  1. (dated, euphemistic) A brothel.
    • But there was also about him an indescribable air which no mechanic could have acquired in the practice of his handicraft however dishonestly exercised: […] the air of moral nihilism common to keepers of gambling hells and disorderly houses […].1906 January–October, Joseph Conrad, chapter II, in The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale (Collection of British Authors; 3995), copyright edition, London: Bernhard Tauchnitz, published 1907, →OCLC, page 15

Questions about disorderly houses

What is disorderly houses the plural of?
Disorderly houses is the plural of disorderly house.

Words near disorderly houses in the dictionary

  1. disorderlily
  2. disorderliness
  3. disorderly
  4. disorderly conduct
  5. disorderly house
  6. disorderly houses
  7. disorderment
  8. disorders
  9. disorders of sex development
  10. disordinal
  11. disordinance

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