house of ill repute
Den of prostitution
A house of ill repute is a brothel—a place where prostitution occurs.
The phrase is deliberately euphemistic and old-fashioned, often used with ironic formality or to avoid blunter terms: The old hotel had once been a house of ill repute.
Sometimes shortened to simply ill repute.
- brothelCommercial sex establishment
- bawdyhousePremises for prostitution
- bordelloCommercial sex establishment
- massage parlorCommercial therapeutic touch venue
- whorehouseCommercial sex establishment
hooker · lady of the night · working girl · vice · red-light district · back alley · crib · den of iniquity · scandal · immorality · harlot · fallen woman · scarlet woman · stew · promiscuity · escort service · oldest profession · streetwalker
- Euphemismspass away, passed away, passed on, expecting, with child
- prostitutionbrothel, brothels, bordello, bordellos, sex work
- vice densbrothel, opium den, speakeasy, gambling den, den of iniquity
house of ill reputegentleman's club
Private social organization for men
finishing school · convent · boarding school · almshouse · hospice
house of ill reputehouse of God
Place of worship
church · house of worship · temple · sanctuary · chapel
house, houses, housed, housing, housekeeper, household, illness, repute, reputed