sporting-house

It is a well-known sporting-house, and the breakfasts are famous.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

It was during this time that the newspapers invented such locutions as interesting (or delicate) condition, criminal operation, house of ill (or questionable) repute, disorderly-house, sporting-house, statutory offense, fallen woman and criminal assault.

Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words Henry Louis 1921

The housekeeper was exasperated beyond endurance with me, and told me I would have to learn to distinguish a gentleman from a blackguard; to which advice I hotly retorted that I didn't believe that gentlemen came into a "sporting-house."

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

I did not by any means always succeed in keeping the girls sober by serving them with whatever I considered good for them, for it is a part of the creed of nearly every patron of a sporting-house to help the girls circumvent the landlady.

Madeleine: An Autobiography Madeleine 1919

The housekeeper was exasperated beyond endurance with me, and told me I would have to learn to distinguish a gentleman from a blackguard; to which advice I hotly retorted that I didn't believe that gentlemen came into a "sporting-house."

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

I did not by any means always succeed in keeping the girls sober by serving them with whatever I considered good for them, for it is a part of the creed of nearly every patron of a sporting-house to help the girls circumvent the landlady.

Madeleine An Autobiography Anonymous 1919

A secondary sporting-house district about a third the size of the main one around Twenty-second and Armour.

Tammy Bruce 2009