bordeller
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Danish
[edit]Noun
[edit]bordeller n
Middle English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bordeller
- a keeper or a frequenter of a brothel
- c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:
- Thaise out of his barge he hente,
And to this bordeller hir solde.
And he, that be hire body wolde Take- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
[edit]- “bordeller”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- bordell n
Noun
[edit]bordeller m or n
Swedish
[edit]Noun
[edit]bordeller