Cathouse
brothel; whorehouse.
Historical Examples
Went out of here to die, get drunk, go back to work in a cathouse or pushing dope—I don’t care.
The Trial of Callista Blake Edgar Pangborn
noun
(US & Canadian) a slang word for brothel
noun
A cheap lodging house; flophouse (1915+ Hoboes)
A brothel: New Orleans was proud and ashamed of its cathouses (1890s+)
[second sense fr earlier cat, ”prostitute, vulva”]
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