Obs. Also 6–8 burdello. [a. It. bordello: see BORDEL.] = BORDEL.

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1598.  B. Jonson, Ev. Man in Hum., I. ii. From the Burdello, it might come as well.

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1642.  Milton, Apol. Smect., Wks. 1738, I. 109. Proceed now to the afternoon; in Play-houses, he says, and the Bordelloes.

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1719.  D’Urfey, Pills (1872), IV. 23.

        Ah London th’adst better have built New Burdello’s,
T’ encourage She-Traders and lusty Young Fellows.

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1794.  Matthias, Purs. Lit. (1798), 69. The stews and bordellos of Grecian and Roman antiquity.

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