maison publique
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French[edit]
Noun[edit]
maison publique f (plural maisons publiques)
- (historical) a licensed brothel
- Synonym: maison de tolérance
- 1920, Henri-René Lenormand, Le Simoun, act I:
- Aïescha: Je serais la femme d’un caballero! J’aurais ma voiture à Madrid!
Laurency: Sans moi, tu serais dans une maison publique d’Alger ou d’Oran.- Aisha: I would be the wife of a Spanish gentleman! I would have my own carriage in Madrid!
Laurency: Without me, you would be in a brothel in Algiers or Oran.
- Aisha: I would be the wife of a Spanish gentleman! I would have my own carriage in Madrid!
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “maison” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 8th Edition (1932–35).