| 词汇 | stew |
| 词源 | stew. Now the synonym for a brothel or a prostitute, a stew was in medieval times the town bathhouse. Toward the end of the Middle Ages the town bathhouse became the gathering place for loose men and women, stew taking on its present meaning. Our word stew for meat and vegetables slowly boiled together comes from the same source, the verb meaning to bathe in a hot bath or stew. |
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