"maison close" meaning in French

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maisons closes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "maison close f (plural maisons closes)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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        {
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          "name": "French entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "fr",
          "name": "Prostitution",
          "orig": "fr:Prostitution",
          "parents": [
            "Sexuality",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Sex",
            "Human",
            "All topics",
            "Reproduction",
            "Fundamental",
            "Life",
            "Nature"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Tonight you've decided to go back to the Bar Biturique, your favourite house of ill repute. Brothels are supposed to be banned in France, but in Paris alone there are a good fifty of them.",
          "ref": "2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, page 73",
          "text": "Ce soir tu as décidé de retourner au Bar Biturique, ton lupanar favori. Les maisons closes sont supposées être interdites en France ; pourtant, rien qu’à Paris, on en dénombre une bonne cinquantaine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "brothel"
      ],
      "id": "en-maison_close-fr-noun-HeTsAx~e",
      "links": [
        [
          "brothel",
          "brothel"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "maison de passe"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "bordel"
        },
        {
          "english": "dated or literary",
          "word": "lupanar"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "historical"
          ],
          "word": "maison de tolérance"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ.zɔ̃ kloz/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/me.zɔ̃ kloz/"
    },
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      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maison close"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "maisons closes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "f"
      },
      "expansion": "maison close f (plural maisons closes)",
      "name": "fr-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "French",
  "lang_code": "fr",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        "French countable nouns",
        "French entries with incorrect language header",
        "French feminine nouns",
        "French lemmas",
        "French multiword terms",
        "French nouns",
        "French terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "French terms with audio links",
        "French terms with quotations",
        "fr:Prostitution"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Tonight you've decided to go back to the Bar Biturique, your favourite house of ill repute. Brothels are supposed to be banned in France, but in Paris alone there are a good fifty of them.",
          "ref": "2000, Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs, Gallimard, page 73",
          "text": "Ce soir tu as décidé de retourner au Bar Biturique, ton lupanar favori. Les maisons closes sont supposées être interdites en France ; pourtant, rien qu’à Paris, on en dénombre une bonne cinquantaine.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "brothel"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "brothel",
          "brothel"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "maison de passe"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "informal"
          ],
          "word": "bordel"
        },
        {
          "english": "dated or literary",
          "word": "lupanar"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "historical"
          ],
          "word": "maison de tolérance"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/mɛ.zɔ̃ kloz/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/me.zɔ̃ kloz/"
    },
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      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "maison close"
}