lewd places, being the common habitations of prostitutes. King Henry VIII, by proclamation, in the 37th year of his reign, suppressed all the flews or brothel-houses which had long continued on the bank-side in Southwark, contrary to the law of God and of the land*. A brothelman was a loose-fiddle fellow; and a feme bordelier, or brotheliers, a common whore. And bordeman is a contraction for brothelman†.