Obs. [f. as prec. + -RY.]
1. Lewdness; harlotry.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, II. (1550), 29. He fell to the talke of as fyne brothelry, as anye craftes man in that art myght vtter.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 97. Brothelrie is the Arte of abandoninge the proper chastitie to all men.
1605. B. Jonson, Volpone, Ded. Wks. 1616, 445. With brothelry, able to violate the eare of a pagan.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter ii. 14. Pestilent uses of turpitude and brothelry.
2. A place of prostitutes.
1593. Marlowe, Lust’s Domin., I. iii. Whilst you at home suffer’d his bedchamber To be a brothelry.
1616. Dekker, Sev. Sinnes, II. (Arb.), 22. Thou makest thy buildings a Brothelry to others.
