Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BORD'EL, or BORD-EL'LO
BORD'EL, or BORD-EL'LO, n. [Fr. bordel, a brothel; D. bordeel; Ger. bordell; It. bordello; Sp. burdel; Arm. bordell; from bord, a house. This is the Eng. brothel.]
A brothel; a bawdy-house; a house devoted to prostitution. – B. Jonson.
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