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lupanar
[ loo-pey-ner, -pah- ]
noun
- a brothel; whorehouse.
51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of lupanar1
Example Sentences
Among its amenities: a large garden, a spacious restaurant complete with indoor latrines and nearby—close enough to warrant a sign in front of the bar that warned against loitering—the Grand Lupanar, a popular brothel.
For her outspoken language and forcible diction, wherein, however, she always preserved so much modesty, and for her realism which described things and feelings as they are, but without going into revolting details, we have those lusciously suggestive epithets and those unveiled presentations of the sexual instinct which seem to make the world one large lupanar.
The following thought sprang up in his head: Perhaps Desmarais had learned of the consequences of the debauchery of Louis XV; perhaps he knew that Victoria had been held in the lupanar in King Louis's "Doe Park," and had later been imprisoned in the Repentant Women.
Apud Aquitanicos quæ civitas in locupletissimâ ac nobilissimâ sui parte non quasi lupanar fuit?
Also in Diana: "Ut eat incognitus ad lupanar."—Cited by Blaise Pascal, Letters to a Provincial, Letter VI, p.
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