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Cathouse vs Bordello - What's the difference?

cathouse | bordello |

As nouns the difference between cathouse and bordello

is that cathouse is (us|slang) a brothel while bordello is a brothel.

cathouse

English

Alternative forms

* cat-house

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, slang) A brothel.
  • * 1946 , Mezz Mezzrow & Bernard Wolfe, Really the Blues , Payback Press 1999, p. 5:
    • Do you know how he spent years watching the droopy chicks in cathouses , listening to his cellmates moaning low behind the bars [...]?

    Synonyms

    * See also

    See also

    * red light district * prostitute

    Anagrams

    * English words with consonant pseudo-digraphs

    bordello

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A brothel

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