(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Mar 16 2005 at 22:26:09

Red-light district.

A district or neighborhood in which disorderly resorts are frequent; -- so called in allusion to the red light kept in front of many such resorts at night.

[Colloq. or Cant]

 

© Webster 1913.

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