The story
- Middle English · inherited fromhorehous
- English todaywhorehouse
From Middle English horehous, equivalent to whore + house. Cognate with Dutch hoerenhuis (“whorehouse”), German Hurenhaus (“whorehouse”), Danish horehus (“whorehouse”), Swedish horhus (“whorehouse”), Icelandic hóruhús (“whorehouse; brothel”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.