Definition of House of ill repute

1. Noun. A building where prostitutes are available.


Definition of House of ill repute

1. Noun. (euphemistic) A brothel. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of House Of Ill Repute

house martin
house martins
house master
house mice
house mouse
house music
house number
house numbers
house of God
house of accommodation
house of cards
house of correction
house of detention
house of ill repute (current term)
house of prayer
house of worship
house officer
house organ
house organs
house paint
house painter
house painting
house parties
house party
house physician
house plant
house plants

Literary usage of House of ill repute

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"From the prison and the gambling-house and the house of ill repute the message or the messenger has hither come that might not have elsewhere gone. ..."

2. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1830)
"MY IMPRUDENT OBSTINACY IN ENTERING A HOUSE OF ILL-REPUTE AGAINST THE ADVICE AND ENTREATIES OP MV WIFE. I AM TAKEN IN CUSTODY, AND CARRIED TO THE WATCH-HOUSE ..."

3. Occasional Papers, Dramatic and Historical by Henry Brodribb Irving (1906)
"A little after nine, a few steps from the house of ill repute, some one picked up a dirty pocket-handkerchief, twisted and bitten, as though it had served ..."

4. Occasional Papers, Dramatic and Historical by Henry Brodribb Irving (1906)
"A little after nine, a few steps from the house of ill repute, some one picked up a dirty pocket-handkerchief, twisted and bitten, as though it had served ..."

5. Review of the Forrest Divorce: Containing Some Remarkable Disclosures of the by Old lawyer (1852)
"... and what I had seen and heard, I reported the house ne a house of ill repute, an assignation ..."

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