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canhouse

noun
/ˈkanhaʊs/

Etymology

From can + house.

  1. inherited from husen
  2. derived from *(s)kews-✻
  3. inherited from *hūsą✻ — “house”
  4. inherited from *hūs✻
  5. inherited from hūs — “dwelling, shelter, house”
  6. inherited from hous
  7. compounded as canhouse — “can + house”

Definitions

  1. A brothel.

    • The Roamer Inn was like a model of all the canhouses I ever saw around Chicago, the granddaddy of them all.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA