house of ill repute
Example Sentences
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Maureen , an older woman living alone in a former house of ill repute owned by her gangster son, Jimmy Phelan, clocks an intruder on the head with a gaudy religious tchotchke.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 2016
It was a disgrace that Abraham Lincoln died in a theater because a theater was a house of ill repute.
From New York Times ● Jan. 22, 2013
