Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
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.
pl n often facetious
- luxurious or self-indulgent living
- places, such as striptease clubs, where bodily desires are gratified or titillated
from flesh (n.) + pot (n.1); literally “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]