house of assignation:

American term for a brothel . First usage, in the 1830s, referred to a large, elegant brothel . See brothel for synonyms.
See Also: Bathsheba, bed house, casa, child pornography laws, chippie house, chippie joint, chippy-house, chippy-joint, fag factory, house, house of joy, jag house, moll house, molly house, nautch joint, notch house, notch joint, red-light, red-light house

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