accommodation house

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building offering board and lodging to travellers. historical
  2. A building offering rooms to prostitutes and their clients for a short period in exchange for payment. euphemistic,historical
    — Subsequently, being recalled, he testified that "the phrase 'is keeping an accommodation-house,' when applied to a woman, in Jasper county, in his opinion, mean the same as a house of ill-fame, or house of prostitution." On cross-examination, he said, "the phrase 'is keeping an accommodation-house,' when applied to a woman, means the same in Jasper county as it would in Newton county, or anywhere else. […]"

词形变化

accommodation houses plural
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