fancy house
English
editNoun
editfancy house (plural fancy houses)
- (euphemistic) A brothel.
- 2001, Dana Stabenow, The Singing of the Dead, →ISBN, page 239:
- Turner probably visited Angel regularly. He paid for her fancy house.
- 2013, Nevada Barr, Burn, →ISBN:
- From what I've been able to pry out of her the fancy house customers weren't allowed to hit.
- 2017, J. B. Fisher, The Blessing of Pequea Sam, →ISBN:
- In turn as Liz's madam, Yolanda continually ran such a clean ship for Liz and made so much money, that she ended up with her own "fancy house".
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see fancy, house.