fancy house

noun

A brothel.

Meanings

nounfancy house (plural fancy houses)

plural fancy houses

  1. euphemisticA brothel.

    Turner probably visited Angel regularly. He paid for her fancy house.

    2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 239
    2 more examples

    From what I've been able to pry out of her the fancy house customers weren't allowed to hit.

    2013, Nevada Barr, Burn, →ISBN

    In turn as Liz's madam, Yolanda continually ran such a clean ship for Liz and made so much money, that she ended up with her own "fancy house".

    2017, J. B. Fisher, The Blessing of Pequea Sam, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fancy, house.
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