Idiom
house of ill fame
Meaning
A brothel
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The police closed the house of ill fame.”
“The townspeople were shocked to discover that the quiet building on the corner was actually a house of ill fame.”
“In the darker corners of the city, the detective searched for clues near the notorious house of ill fame where the suspects were last seen.”
Examples
simple
“The police closed the house of ill fame.”
contextual
“The townspeople were shocked to discover that the quiet building on the corner was actually a house of ill fame.”
complex
“In the darker corners of the city, the detective searched for clues near the notorious house of ill fame where the suspects were last seen.”
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