house of tolerance

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Calque of French maison de tolérance.

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house of tolerance (plural houses of tolerance)

  1. (dated) A licensed brothel.
    • 1969, Allen V. Ross, Vice in Bombay, London: Tallis Press, page 160:
      It is like an older Paris, when the houses of tolerance put on sex shows.
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