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