Usually means: Brothel providing sexual services legally.
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  1. bawdyhouse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. bawdyhouse: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bawdyhouse: Vocabulary.com
  4. bawdyhouse: Wordnik
  5. bawdyhouse: Wiktionary
  6. bawdyhouse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. bawdyhouse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. bawdyhouse: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Bawdyhouse, bawdyhouse: Dictionary.com
  10. Bawdyhouse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. bawdyhouse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. bawdyhouse: Rhymezone
  13. Bawdyhouse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. bawdyhouse: FreeDictionary.org
  15. bawdyhouse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. bawdyhouse: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of bawdy-house [(now chiefly historical, formal) A brothel; a house of prostitution.]

Similar:
cathouse, house of ill repute, sporting house, brothel, bagnio, bordello, whorehouse, house of prostitution, bawdy house, bawdy-house, more...

Opposite:
chaste house, virtuous house, modest house

Adjectives:
common, nearest, low, notorious, puritan

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Similar:
cathouse, house of ill repute, sporting house, brothel, bagnio, bordello, whorehouse, house of prostitution, bawdy house, bawdy-house, more...

Opposite:
chaste house, virtuous house, modest house

Adjectives:
common, nearest, low, notorious, puritan



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