Noun
A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse. Walter Annenberg
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they're only animals. Theodor Adorno
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse. Anne Sexton
For us the Dresden Dolls were porcelain dolls that were made in that city at the time, that is what they were to us, and also a reference in Slaughterhouse 5 by Kurt Vonnegut, and in a song by The Fall. Brian Viglione
When the ox is at the slaughterhouse everyone comes running with their knives. Sicilian Proverb