common house

common house
   1. obsolete
   a brothel
   From the sharing no doubt and not to be confused with Westminster's House of Commons:
    Do nothing but use their abuses in common houses. (Shakespeare, Measure for Measure)
   See also house1.
   2. obsolete
   a lavatory
   Again from the sharing, and a feature of much 19th-century urban development.
   See also house2.

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