noun, masculine/bɔʁ.dɛl/plural: bordels
brothel; bloody mess (UK), goddamn mess (US)
“S'il vous plaît de chanter les fleurs / Qu'elles poussent au moins rue Blondel / Dans un bordel” — If you like to sing about flowers / At least let them be ones that grow on Rue Blondel / In a brothel
Synonyms: maison close, bazar
Inherited from Middle French bordel, from Old French bordel, from Medieval Latin bordellum (“brothel, small hut”).