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Definition of House of prostitution

1. Noun. A building where prostitutes are available.

Lexicographical Neighbors of House Of Prostitution

Literary usage of House of prostitution

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"Disorderly house c=>!7—Evidence sustaining conviction for keeping house of prostitution. In a prosecution for keeping a bonse of prostitution, evidence held ..."

2. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the by William W. Sanger (1876)
"If, however, any such person desire only to remove to another house of prostitution, this can not be done without the consent of her former keeper, ..."

3. The Tenement House Problem: Including the Report of the New York State by New York (State). Tenement House Commission, Lawrence Veiller, Robert Weeks De Forest (1903)
"A. woman who knowingly resides in or commits prostitution in a house of prostitution or assignation of any description in a tenement house or solicits any ..."

4. The History of Prostitution: Its Extent, Causes, and Effects Throughout the by William W. Sanger (1859)
"If, however, any such person desire only to remove to another house of prostitution, this can not be done without the consent of her former keeper, ..."

5. The Social Evil in Chicago: A Study of Existing Conditions with by Chicago (Ill.). Vice Commission (1911)
"PENALTY FOR ALLOWING FEMALE UNDER EIGHTEEN TO LIVE IN house of prostitution. Whoever, being the keeper of a house of prostitution, or assignation house, ..."

6. Peking: A Social Survey Conducted Under the Auspices of the Princeton by Sidney David Gamble, John Stewart Burgess (1921)
"When the manager of any house of prostitution wants to move the house to a new location or to change the name of the house, he must f1rst make application ..."

7. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"An alien woman found an inmate of a house of prostitution within three years after her return to the United States, following a temporal v absence abroad, ..."

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