A bordello is, of course, a brothel, a house of prostitution. It is an example of a word that has been borrowed into English multiple times at different points in history. Bordello is a sixteenth-century borrowing from Italian, but it has an earlier form bordel, dating to c. 1300, that is a borrowing from Anglo-Norman. The Anglo-Norman ... More @Wikipedia
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