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house of assignation
noun - a brothel.
[Origin: 1825–35, Americanism]
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
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House of assignation
Assignation \As`sig*na"tion\, n. [L. assignatio, fr. assignare: cf. F. assignation.]
1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
"This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces." --Holland.
2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
"While nymphs take treats, or assignations give." --Pope.
3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996
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Now tell Hydra, why, all of a sudden, have you become so interested in sex and stuff?
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