or Bordello, subs. (old).—A brothel: see NANNY-SHOP.

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  d. 1402.  GOWER, MS. Soc. Antiq., 134. f 238.

        He ladde hire to the BORDEL thoo,
No wondir is thouȝe sche be wo.

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  1598.  JONSON, Every Man in his Humour, i. 2.

                    From the windmill!
From the BORDELLO, it might come as well.

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  1611.  CORYATE, Crudities, ii. 175. Also crept into all the stewes, all the brothell houses, and BURDELLOES of Italy.

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  c. 1696.  B. E., A New Dictionary of the Canting Crew, s.v. BORDEL-LO, a Bawdy-House.

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