fancy house

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Noun

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fancy house (plural fancy houses)

  1. (euphemistic) A brothel.
    • 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 239:
      Turner probably visited Angel regularly. He paid for her fancy house.
    • 2013, Nevada Barr, Burn, →ISBN:
      From what I've been able to pry out of her the fancy house customers weren't allowed to hit.
    • 2017, J. B. Fisher, The Blessing of Pequea Sam, →ISBN:
      In turn as Liz's madam, Yolanda continually ran such a clean ship for Liz and made so much money, that she ended up with her own "fancy house".
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fancy,‎ house.
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