fleshhouse · noun — A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop.
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fleshhouse is pronounced /flɛʃ.haʊs/.
Etymology
From Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs (“slaughterhouse, meat shop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“shambles”), equivalent to flesh + house.
noun
- A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop.e.g.“To seek for things that are pure and good, instead of criticis and philosophies, that rise up out of thy contaminated fleshhouse.” — 1915, Lauron William De Laurence, The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism, Now..., page 80:
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