fleshpot

noun

fleshpots.

places offering luxurious and unrestrained pleasure or amusement: the fleshpots of Las Vegas.

luxurious and unrestrained living.

a pot or vessel containing flesh or meat.

Origin:
1525–35; flesh + pot¹

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Word Origin & History

fleshpot

lit. "pot in which flesh is boiled," hence "luxuries regarded with envy," especially in fleshpots of Egypt, from Exodus xvi.3:

"Whan we sat by ye Flesh pottes, and had bred ynough to eate." [Coverdale translation, 1535]

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