bordel

Etymology

From Middle English bordel, from Old French bordel (“brothel”).

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.

Anagrams

• Dobler, belord, blored, bolder

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Noun

bordel m

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

Further reading

• bordel in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• bordel in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔrdɛl/, [b̥ɒˈd̥ɛlˀ]

Noun

bordel n (singular definite bordellet, plural indefinite bordeller)

1. bordello, brothel, whorehouse

Etymology

From Middle French bordel, from Old French bordel, from Medieval Latin bordellum (“brothel, small hut”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bɔʁ.dɛl/

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Noun

bordel m (plural bordels)

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

Interjection

bordel

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

Further reading

• “bordel” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

bordel m (plural bordéis)

1. brothel

Etymology

Borrowed from French bordel (“brothel”).

Noun

bòrdel m (Cyrillic spelling бо̀рдел)

1. brothel