khách điếm

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Vietnamese

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 客店.

Pronunciation

Noun

khách điếm

  1. (literary) inn, roadhouse
    • 2005, chapter 2, in Cao Tự Thanh, transl., Anh hùng xạ điêu, Văn học, translation of 射雕英雄传 by Jīn Yōng (Kim Dung):
      [] nhưng lúc trong khách điếm thấy cung cách y đối xử với Bao Tích Nhược đã biết hai người không phải vợ chồng, []
      but when in the inn he saw the way he treated Bāo Xīruò and knew the two of them were not married,