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noun
A place where meat is killed or sold; meat shop; butcher's shop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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Synonyms: shambles, slaughterhouse
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English fleshusse, from Old English flǣsċhūs (“slaughterhouse, meat shop”), from Proto-West Germanic *flaiskihūs (“shambles”), equivalent to flesh + house.
