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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.

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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Red-Light District'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​r/red-light-district.html. 1828.
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