Fwd: 13.406, Qs: "English words" Quote--Author, James D. Nicoll?

[Laurence Horn]

At 4:25 PM +0000 2/14/02, Jonathon Green wrote:
>Mr Nicholl eludes me but for LH's information a 'cribhouse' is a brothel.
>Thus
>
>1932 (context 1917-19) Dos Passos _Nineteen Nineteen_ (in _USA_) 385 The
>doors of all the cribhouses were open.
>
Well, that certainly gives us another (near-)pleonasm for the
collection.  (No, I know "brothel whore" isn't technically a
pleonasm, but pretty close.)

larry