Word Meanings - TRUGGING-HOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A brothel. Robert Greene.

Related words: (words related to TRUGGING-HOUSE)

• GREENERY
  Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow.
• ROBERT
  See HERB
• BROTHELRY
  Lewdness; obscenity; a brothel. B. Jonson.
• BROTHELER
  One who frequents brothels.
• BROTHEL
  A house of lewdness or ill fame; a house frequented by prostitutes; a bawdyhouse. (more info) worthless fellow, fr. AS. beró to ruin, destroy; cf. AS. breótan to break, and E. brittle. The term brothel house was confused with
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• ROBERDSMAN; ROBERTSMAN
  A bold, stout robber, or night thief; -- said to be so called from Robin Hood.
• EMBROTHEL
  To inclose in a brothel. Donne.