flash-ken

flash-ken
   obsolete
   a brothel
   Also as flash-house or -panney, where you would find a flash-tail, -girl or -woman, if that was your ambition:
    ... at last struck home at a likely flash-ken where they were keeping it up to some tune. (Fraser, 1997 — supposedly they were 'keeping up' no more than wine and song)
    ... keeping a cold eye on the more obvious thieves and flash- tails. (Fraser, 1977, writing again in 19th-century style)

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