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hurdy(-gurdy) house West, Hist. 
a low-class dance hall where dancing-partners could be hired.
See also: hurdy-gurdy (def. 2)
- 1873 (1904) It was not a hurdy-house; music and dancing were both wanting.
- 1955 Freighting . . . was a series of dull assignments, broken only by infrequent visits to the saloons and hurdy-gurdy houses of Benton, Macleod, and Calgary.
- 1873 (1904) It was not a hurdy-house; music and dancing were both wanting.