house of ill repute
noun phrase
: a business establishment where sex workers are available for hire : brothel
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Arryk and Erryk find themselves in a house of ill repute where children as young as 10 are forced to grow their nails, file their teeth, and fight as drunken denizens cheer them on.
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2022
Company members lived in what’s commonly believed to be a former house of ill repute, sharing the building with the painter Stephen Quiller’s gallery in the early 1970s.
—New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
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Randall Colburn, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2022
Company members lived in what’s commonly believed to be a former house of ill repute, sharing the building with the painter Stephen Quiller’s gallery in the early 1970s.
—New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
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“House of ill repute.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/house%20of%20ill%20repute. Accessed 24 Dec. 2024.
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