Lupanar  

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  1. A brothel.
    • 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon 2001, p. 33:
      A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.

Etymology

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“‘prostitute’”), literally ‘she-wolf’, from lupus (“‘wolf’”).

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