They are a place of encounter, of assignation, of sexual tension and its release.
Bloom has his own problems: his wife's planned assignation with another, better-endowed man; his all-consuming guilt over his son's death; his father's suicide; his daughter's burgeoning sexuality; and, as a Jew among Irishmen, his two-tiered second-class-status.
The princess's saintly image may fray a bit more from the tales of a romping love life, including an assignation where she wore nothing but a fur coat.
The receptionist will assume you want it for a romantic assignation and will look at you in a certain way.
The houses of assignation that quickly proliferated throughout the area included everything from cheap 25-cent brothels to extremely elegant establishments on North Basin Street.
Taking advantage of having overheard their conversation, Shakespeare allegedly hastened to the place where the assignation had been arranged, was "entertained" by the woman, and was "at his game" when Burbage showed up.
In the climactic scene, set in Windsor Forest, Falstaff dresses himself absurdly as Herne the Hunter, complete with stag's horns, expecting an assignation.
Helena's stratagem to resolve this difficulty is the so-called bed trick, substituting herself in Bertram's bed for the arranged assignation and then calling her wayward husband to account when she is pregnant with his child.
According to an entry dated March 13 , 1602 in the commonplace book of a law student named John Manningham, Shakespeare had a brief affair after he happened to overhear a female citizen at a performance of Richard III making an assignation with Richard Burbage, the leading actor of the acting company to which Shakespeare also belonged.
Yesterday Brand denied the assignation, tweeting: "With respect to the ol' transgender community, I didn't have it off with the antiques kid off Wogan.
The assignation lasted a mere 15 minutes because Liverpool had other engagements to see to.
