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bordel

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

noun bordels

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 s

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"bordel." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bordel. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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@misc{bordel_2026,
  title = {bordel},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bordel},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}