bordel

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
11
Letters
6

Definition of bordel

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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 several spotless cubicles.”

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Etymology

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

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