house of ill fame

Despite Emma’s insistence that Sarah had decamped for “a house of ill fame,” a search of St. Louis bawdy houses turned up no sign of her.

“Well, you’ll have to learn these things. I made very discreet inquiries and you would never guess. She is the—well—the owner of a house of ill fame.”

George Cornelius Basine emerged from Madam Minnie's house of ill fame at five o'clock on a Sabbath May morning.

I remember once being in a small town in the South, when one of these "road shows" arrived from New York, and I realized that this institution was simply a traveling house of ill fame; the whole male portion of the town was a-quiver with excitement, a mixture of lust and fear.

I kept my eye upon one of those priests, from the moment he entered this house of ill fame until twelve o'clock at night.