Meanings
plural fancy houses
- euphemisticA brothel.
Turner probably visited Angel regularly. He paid for her fancy house.
2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 2392 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, →ISBNIn 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
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