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lupanar en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /luːˈpeɪnɑː/

Etymology

From Latin lupānar, from lupa (“prostitute”, literally “she-wolf”), from lupus (“wolf”).

Meanings

1. (archaic, formal) A brothel.
   • A prostitute was not permitted to stand under a street lamp, and sisters were not allowed to work in the same lupanar. 1942, Elliot Paul, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Sickle Moon, published 2001, page 33:
   • The steam of fetid vices / From a thousand lupanars, / Like smoke of sacrifices, / Reeked up to the heedless stars. 1920, Aldous Huxley, “From the Pillar”, in Leda, New York: George H. Doran:

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lupanarian