lewd places, being the common habitations of prostitutes. King Henry VIII. by proclamation, in the 37th year of his reign, suppressed all the stews 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 loofe idle fellow; and a femme bordelier, or brothelier, a common whore. And bordelier is a contraction for brothelman. See BAWDY HOUSE.