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"genteel house"?

 
 
Reply Thu 14 Apr, 2011 04:46 am
Can anyone tell me what is a "genteel house"?
I read it in this sentence:
"It was Howell who introduced the young poet Swinburne to a genteel house of ill-repute in Circus Road, Regent's Park."
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electronicmail
 
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Reply Thu 14 Apr, 2011 04:49 am
@jeremykong,
House of ill repute
means
house of prostitution

Then you look up "genteel" in the dictionary.
jeremykong
 
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Reply Thu 14 Apr, 2011 04:50 am
@electronicmail,
Thank you.
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adistowin
 
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Reply Thu 14 Apr, 2011 06:08 am
@jeremykong,
genteel means gentlest,cultivated
PUNKEY
 
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Reply Thu 14 Apr, 2011 06:59 am
I'd say it means a "fashionable house" of ill-repute.

A high class whore house.
PaddyH
 
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Reply Thu 14 Apr, 2011 09:13 am
@PUNKEY,
Who ever heard of a high-class whore
electronicmail
 
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Reply Fri 15 Apr, 2011 08:42 am
@adistowin,
No.
Gentle is a different word.
Cultivated is another even more different word.


electronicmail
 
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Reply Fri 15 Apr, 2011 08:44 am
@PaddyH,
You got to be kidding?
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JTT
 
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Reply Fri 15 Apr, 2011 07:30 pm
@electronicmail,
Quote:
No.
Gentle is a different word.
Cultivated is another even more different word.


I think that that is the appearance that the bordello is trying to effect, Em, a bordello with class, a bordello that is genteel in nature, one that doesn't allow crudeness.
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adistowin
 
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Reply Sat 16 Apr, 2011 02:48 am
@electronicmail,
More
electronicmail
 
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Reply Sat 16 Apr, 2011 07:48 am
@adistowin,
Sorry, what do you mean?
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