house of assignation

noun - a brothel.
[Origin: 1825–35, Americanism]

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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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