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flash house

noun

flash house

noun

Etymology Because frequented by flash or showy people, such as thieves and whores.

1

Obsolete A brothel.

  • A gang of footpads, revelling with their favourite beauties at a flash-house.1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England:

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