Sentence examples for closed house from inspiring English sources
The exhibition moves into the Maison Clos (closed house).
(Her well-heeled appearance belies her somewhat subversive curatorial practice, which focuses on site-specific installations such as "Case Chiuse," an Italian metaphor for brothel that literally translates as "closed house," an initiative that exhibits artworks in private spaces).
In contrast to classical architecture, romantic or "Gothic" architecture is based on the idea of a closed house in which Christian inwardness can find refuge from the outside world.
— — — — House Of Pleasures Directed By Bertrand Bonello The French term for brothel is "maison close" — literally closed house — and Bertrand Bonello's "House of Pleasures," a sumptuous drama about the lives of courtesans in fin de siècle Paris, takes this expression at face value by unfolding almost entirely within the upholstered walls of an upscale bordello called L'Apollonide.
His accounts have been closed, house sold for taxes, warranties voided, policies cancelled, back wages garnisheed.
In the last several years, the company has closed House & Garden and Jane, opened and then closed Cargo, Vitals and Domino.
Home design "should allow some information inside to flow outside," he said, adding that there are too many closed houses in Japan that give no hint that anyone lives inside.
In a red velvet curtained side room at the exhibition, some early photographs capture the debauchery: there are women in suggestive poses and pornographic scenes of heterosexual and homosexual relations inside the closed houses.
But not in Italy, where prostitutes throng the cities' piazze and patrol the passeggiate, mingling with tourists from Des Moines and families out for their evening strolls.The problem started some 40 years ago, when parliament outlawed case chiuse ("closed houses"), throwing prostitutes on to the streets.
Bold data in Table 1 indicated combined data for all open and closed houses.
No influenza viruses were detected in ducks raised in "closed" houses with high biosecurity.
