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Webster 1828 Edition


Bordel

BORD'EL


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bordel

bordel

English

Noun

bordel (plural bordels)

  1. (now rare) A brothel.
    • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 470:
      Appropriately enough she had given him a rendezvous (for the marriage) at the old Sphinx, opposite the Gare Montparnasse, where the respectable exterior – a family café, where families up from the country came to eat an ice and wat for their train – masked a charming bordel with a high gallery and several spotless cubicles.

Czech

Etymology

French bordel

Noun

bordel m

  1. brothel, whorehouse
  2. (slang) ****-up (big mistake)
  3. (vulgar) mess (disagreeable mixture or confusion of things)

Declension


Danish

Etymology

From French bordel (brothel). Compare German Bordell and Swedish bordell.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]

Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

  1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

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French

Etymology

Old French bordel (small house), diminutive of bord, Medieval Latin bordellum, from a Old Frankish *bord (board).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɔʁ.dɛl/

Noun

bordel m (plural bordels)

  1. (informal) brothel
  2. (slang) bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (especially US)

Synonyms

Interjection

bordel

  1. (vulgar, slang) bloody ****! (UK), Christ almighty!

Portuguese

Etymology

From French bordel (brothel), from Old French bordel (small house), diminutive of bord, from Medieval Latin bordellum, from Old Frankish *bord (board), from Proto-Germanic *burdą (board, table), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥dʰ-o- (board), suffixed zero-grade form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-edʰ- (to cut), suffixed form of Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (to carve, cut, split, rub).

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /boɾˈdɛw/
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /buɾˈðɛɫ/
  • Hyphenation: bor‧del
  • Rhymes: -ɛw

Noun

bordel m (plural bordéis)

  1. brothel

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

French bordel

Noun

bòrdel m (Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)

  1. brothel

Declension