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fleshhouse en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /flɛʃ.haʊs/

Etymology

From Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs (“slaughterhouse, meat shop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“shambles”), equivalent to flesh + house.

Meanings

1. (rare) A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop.
   • He probably did most of his selling in the market place; in the fifteenth century there was a special fleshhouse set aside for the fleshers to sell their wares. 2019, Alexander Grant, Medieval Scotland: Crown, Lordship & Community, page 165:
   • To seek for things that are pure and good, instead of criticis and philosophies, that rise up out of thy contaminated fleshhouse. 1915, Lauron William De Laurence, The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism, Now..., page 80:
   • The fleshhouses exist in defiance of all Vetris's suffocating religion and decorum, and maybe that's why I feel a little freer here, even if the hawkers sitting outside shout me down as I pass or the customers give me a leery eye every few steps. 2019, Sara Wolf, Find Me Their Bones:

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Synonyms

shambles · slaughterhouse