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sporting house

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Definition of sporting house

as in brothel

a building in which prostitutes are available had a long career as a madam in a New Orleans sporting house

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Did something happen in her youth that might inform why Cathy, after marrying Adam, goes on to shoot him, leave their newborns, join a brothel, slowly poison the madam, and then take her job?

— Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
Detectives arrested the courier at a brothel on Riverside Drive, according to a police report.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026

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