Fleshhouse

//flɛʃ.haʊs// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop. rare

    "To seek for things that are pure and good, instead of criticis and philosophies, that rise up out of thy contaminated fleshhouse."

Synonyms

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shamblesslaughterhouse

Example

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"To seek for things that are pure and good, instead of criticis and philosophies, that rise up out of thy contaminated fleshhouse."

Etymology

From Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs (“slaughterhouse, meat shop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“shambles”), equivalent to flesh + house.

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