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house of ill fame

house of ill fame noun: a brothel.

Noun

house of ill fame (plural houses of ill fame)

  1. (euphemistic, idiomatic) A brothel
    • Thirty men were arrested July 26 and charged with "open and gross lewdness" in an early-morning vice squad raid on the Quagmire bar basement. Police also arrested the bar's manager, Barcaly Churchill, and owner, Lloyd Swanson, charging them with a number of counts, including the keeping of a house...1981 August 8, Larry Goldsmith, “Boston Police Arrest 30 Men in Bar Raid”, in Gay Community News, page 1

house of ill fame meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada

house of ill fame in Tamil

விபச்சார விடுதி, விலைமாதர் இல்லம்

house of ill fame in Bengali

পতিতালয়

house of ill fame in Kannada

ವೇಶ್ಯಾಗೃಹ

Forms of house of ill fame

pluralhouses of ill fame

Questions about house of ill fame

What does house of ill fame mean?
House of ill fame means a brothel.
What is house of ill fame in Tamil?
House of ill fame in Tamil is விபச்சார விடுதி, விலைமாதர் இல்லம். See House of ill fame meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is house of ill fame?
House of ill fame is a noun.
What is the plural of house of ill fame?
The plural of house of ill fame is houses of ill fame.

Words near house of ill fame in the dictionary

  1. house of detention
  2. house of ease
  3. house of easement
  4. House of God
  5. house of horrors
  6. house of ill fame
  7. house of ill repute
  8. House of Keys
  9. House of Lords
  10. house of mercy
  11. house of mirrors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: house of ill fame (page history and authors); house of ill fame (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); house of ill fame (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); house of ill fame (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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