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mads.xsd"><authority><topic authority="http://AATesaurus.cultura.gencat.cat/aat/getty_en">pleasure quarters</topic></authority><related type="other"><topic>red-light districts</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>neighborhoods</topic></related><related type="broader"><topic>business districts</topic></related><variant type="other"><topic>pleasure districts</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>pleasure quarter</topic></variant><variant type="other"><topic>quarters, pleasure</topic></variant> <note xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[ Areas of a city in which courtesans are available, separate from the rest of the city, sometimes walled. Primary examples are the pleasure quarters of the Ming dynasty in China and of the Edo era of Japan. ]]></note></mads>