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stews
English Law
1. Places formerly permitted in England to women of professed lewdness, and who, for hire, would prostitute their bodies to all comers.
2. These places were so called because the dissolute persons who visited them prepared themselves by bathing; the word stews being derived from the old French estuves, stove, or hot bath.
Source : Bouvier 1856
Language : English