naughty-house

naughty-house
   obsolete
   a brothel
   From the sense, wicked:
    This house, if it be not a bawd's house, it is pity of her life, for it is a naughty house. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)
   Naughty lady, a prostitute, seems to have survived into modern times:
    ... to which, incidentally, came many of the naughty ladies of Paris to improve their complexions. (Fingall, 1937)

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