Meaning

A brothel or show that features scantily clad women..

Definitions by Sense

1. A brothel or show that features scantily clad women.
2. A gallery or room set aside for female visitors to a male-only establishment.
3. Girlhood.
4. Girlishness; something or some collection of things associated with girls, or a girl herself, viewed as the embodiment of girlishness.

Example Sentences

And it had struck him that the success of that meeting was accountable not only by the presence of the Irish galleries, but also of the Irish girleries.

Besides the attractions at the several movie houses and go-go-girleries and the local burlesk theatre ( in case you want to get completely away from the aura of libraries) there will be performances of "A Thousand Clowns" at the Village Players Theatre, 2740 Upton.

Mikhail went over to the wooden partition and peeped into the “girlery,” their name for the small, one-windowed cubbyhole behind the partition.

The Girlery of the House of Commons.ᵀᵐ; ladies are very dissatisfied with their gallery at Westminster Palace.

Mrs. Hood has gone to the Girlery (pronounced gallery) of the Freemasons' Hall, to hear, see, and eat and drink all she can.

He was heard to chuckle, and to insinuate that he has been accustomed to disport himself when “between the sheets”; but since nobody under the rank of an Archdeacon or a Little Moore can understand what this implies, such remarks of the Hon. Member were inaudible in the Girlery.

W. Hazlitt is in town. I took him to see a very pretty girl professedly, where there were two young girls—the very head and sum of the girlery was two young girls —they neither laughed nor sneered nor giggled nor whispered—but they were young girls—and he sat and frowned blacker and blacker, indignant that there should be such things as youth and beauty, till he tore me away before supper in perfect misery, and owned he could not bear young girls; they drove him mad.

There are lassies and leddies in Scotland, my dear James, of whom you know nothing— houses where, it is obvious from his writings, the author of Modern Athens must have had his howf;— and really, when one considers from what originals he painted his portraits of Edina's girlery, the wonder is that his daubings are not even more disgusting than they are ; but the likenesses are strong, although his nymphs must have been unsteady sitters.

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• girleries

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