Meanings
nounlupanar (plural lupanars)
plural lupanars
- archaicformalA brothel.
The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, / Reeked up to the heedless stars.
1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda, New York: George H. Doran1 more example
A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar.
1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 33
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Origin
- Latinlupānar
- Englishlupanar
From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).
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lupanar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lupanar
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