Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

chambres de passe

English translation:

no-tell hotel rooms

Added to glossary by Poornima Iyengar
Sep 2, 2010 08:31
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French term

chambres de passe

French to English Other General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
Organiser des séances de sensibilisation des gérants et propriétaires de débits de boisson, bars, restaurants, hôtels et chambres de passe, pour faciliter la réalisation des activités de prévention des IST/VIH au profit des TS
Proposed translations (English)
3 +3 no-tell hotel rooms
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Sep 2, 2010 11:16: Stéphanie Soudais changed "Field" from "Social Sciences" to "Other" , "Field (specific)" from "Surveying" to "General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters"

Discussion

Sandra Mouton Sep 2, 2010:
@ Bourth I still think that the French term implies a "professional" angle. But as to what the translation should be, you're right. Since the hotels tend to be the same whether or not money changes hand between the customers, the fact that the professional angle isn't present in the target term is probably immaterial here.
Bourth (X) Sep 2, 2010:
Difference? I used to work in an office near the Porte de Champerret in Paris. Some of my co-workers used to use the hôtel de passe round the corner. In the evenings the same hotel was frequented by the prostitutes working the area (I only know that because being a workaholic I used to work late; that's my story and I'm sticking to it).
So I'm not sure there's really a pro/non-pro difference regarding this term. Besides, if it's just adulterous couples, the risk of spreading STDs would not be that high.
Sandra Mouton Sep 2, 2010:
"No-tell hotel" seems great, as far as I can tell, but to my French ear, "hôtel de passe" refers to a hotel where prostitutes meet their clients, as opposed to "chambres à l'heure", rented by adulterous - or very impatient - couples with no money involved.
liz cencetti (X) Sep 2, 2010:
Hotels and rooms... of ill repute! They're rented out by the hour or however long it takes..., and obviously do a lot towards spreading sexually transmitted disease.

Proposed translations

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no-tell hotel rooms

Since sex is something we Brits don't do, only the French and Americans have words for this kind of thing.

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Note added at 17 mins (2010-09-02 08:48:11 GMT)
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If they wanted you to meet at an HOURLY sleazy NO TELL HOTEL ROOM for a quickie it likely will not get better with time - if ever again. ...
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Here's a hot video with a huge cum shot and cum eating, filmed in a NO-TELL HOTEL ROOM. Hand Job with HUGE Cum Shot. Click on the link below and enjoy the ...
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1. Urban Dictionary: NO TELL HOTEl
A hotel that gets most of its business from people GETTING A ROOM AT IT TO HAVE SEX. And the owners keep secret the names of the people who use it.
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=no tell hotel

Today, the newspaper's travel blog dedicated space to a Parisan NO-TELL HOTEL. Yeah, it's a HIGH-END LOVE HOTEL...: ...
www.mediabistro.com/.../the_herald_tribune_discovers_notell...
"High-end love" indeed! The things some people will do!




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Actually they probably mean hôtels de passe and chambres de passe. One of my neighbours does bed-and-breakfast and from time to time has requests for a room just for the afternoon. So if these chambres are not in hotels, I guess they need another name.

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Health care: a ROOM RENTED BY THE HOUR only to be evacuated when the next paying customer comes along. Opinion by Realist — on May 08, 2010 ...
blogcritics.org/politics/feature/debating-health-care/

It needs some refurbishing in order to get rid of the feel of a ROOM RENTED BY THE HOUR. In order to insure return guests they need to put some money into ...
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in a ROOM RENTED BY THE HOUR. Behind these walls, we are allowed to be no one, and it's easy to dive into sheets that reek of urine, the sweat of whores, ...
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as they take the habit of meeting each other during the day in a small hotel ROOM RENTED BY THE HOUR. Of course, Xiao-Jun has a fiancée with whom he ...
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caresses suffocated when the lunch break ends, all-engrossing sex taking place in a motel ROOM RENTED BY THE HOUR. ...
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Japanese love hotels are a way for young lovers to meet in the neutral ground of a room RENTED BY THE HOUR. ...
www.roadjunky.com/article/.../japanese-culture-love-hotels

It feels more like someone forced me to take a close look at what happens at 1am in a hotel ROOM RENTED BY THE HOUR…if you get my drift. ...
www.twirlit.com/2009/07/10/bruce-willis-and-wifey-strike-a-...

In our western cultures these rooms rented by the hour tend to be in hotels, but in rather get the impression that in the third world they may be "private initiative ventures" in private homes (the owners of which are not directly involved in sex), or, in the West, simply the name given to a prostitute's apartment.

What country is this about? I'm surprised there is no mention of brothels, maybe because it's a country where allegedly brothels don't exist?
Peer comment(s):

agree writeaway : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Sex_Please,_We're_British
51 mins
Oh yes, I always lie back and think of England ...
agree jmleger : yes, in a HO-tel
3 hrs
agree Sandra Mouton : Nice research ;-)
12 hrs
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