Quoin???

[kellydeer.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding completely ignorant...can someone please tell me what the hell a 'Quoin' is???

I've been around this fandom for quite a while & have never figured it out & never bothered to ask anyone. I did look up the term & found the following definition (via the Mirriam-Webster dictionary):

1: a solid exterior angle (as of a building) b: one of the members (as a block) forming a quoin and usually differentiated from the adjoining walls by material, texture, color, size, or projection


2: the keystone or a voussoir of an arch


3: a wooden or expandable metal block used by printers to lock up a form within a chase

Somehow I'm guessing none of these are what the term means in the QAF fandom. From what I can gather, it is (for lack of a better term) a male whore house. If so, I was just wondering how the term came to be used as such when I've found no definition even closely resembling that.

If this should not be posted here, please advise. Thanks!


UPDATE: No one really knows how the word Quoin became associated with a male brothel, but thanks to its_french, this is the closest definition for the word:

Here's what Urban Dictionary has to say about it:
To unceremoniously bend someone over and take them from behind.

Comments

[elaere.livejournal.com]

The Quoin - challenge of QAF fandom was inspired by so-called Key fiction (for example The Palace of Keys is here
http://www.ravenswing.com/~keys/archives.html)

Quoin is a key stone (in masonry, a corner stone, a stone that locks the corner in place). That might be the reason for the name of brothels in the challenge, I think.

[kellydeer.livejournal.com]

OK...

I guess that makes some sense, but it's still a pretty big stretch. Thanks for the link though.