flash house

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Because frequented by flash or showy people, such as thieves and whores.

Noun[edit]

flash house (plural flash houses)

  1. (obsolete) A brothel.
    • 1827, Henry Hallam, The Constitutional History of England:
      A gang of footpads, revelling with their favourite beauties at a flash-house.
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