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opium den

noun

  1. a place where opium is sold and used


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One called Opium has now been “outed” as a copy of a vintage photo of an opium den by Leon Busy.

I am in a shadowy, but elegant, opium den straight out of Colette.

Guided by a servant, Bruce and Ramabai set off for the opium den.

In July, Jasper revisits the London opium den, and talks under opium, watched by the old hag.

He enters an opium den, but the presence of a man who owes his downfall to him irritates him, and he decides to go to another.

In the tale of Edwin Drood the first scene is in an opium den, suffocated with every sort of phantasy and falsehood.

I frankly avow, as I walked to the railway station, I almost wished myself back in the opium den.

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