By then it was already a place of ill repute and half-superstitious horror.

He took to frequenting taverns and other places of ill repute.

There it is described as a "decaying Cotswold town" and "a place of ill repute".

Dating back to Roman times, in the late 19th the district had become a place of ill repute, brothels and open-air outhouses.

Past the city walls Simon could make out the dim, snow- smoothed outlines of the Itch-yard-the old pagan cemetery, a place of ill repute.

AMOLI-Madam of the Lily Garden brothel, a place of ill repute and endless possibilities.

Here it was almost possible to forget one was in Escore: we saw no ruins; there were no near places of ill repute where the Shadow taint lingered.

As the story progresses we find out that Selina Kyle earned the nickname of Catwoman because she owned the Kit Kat Club (a place of ill repute).

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary indicates that, in the United States in the 1880s, the term referred to an illegal drinking den or other place of ill repute, especially one located in a basement.

In the 1830's, closer to home, American evangelical Protestants needed space and publicity for their revivals, so they sometimes went to theaters, which were then places of ill repute, pointedly saying they would "convert" the space, said Jeanne Halgren Kilde, author of the book "When Church Became Theatre."

The erotic work, part of the enormous cache of Turner material at the Tate Britain, comprises dozens of sketches of naked women and nudes of both sexes in erotic entanglements, and was most likely inspired by Turner's trips to brothels and other places of ill repute.