This is after the home-place had slipped through her lily-white fingers! She moved to the Flamingo! A second class hotel which has the advantage of not interfering in the private social life of the personalities there! The Flamingo is used to all kinds of goings-on. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche! In fact they were so impressed by Dame Blanche that they requested her to turn in her room-key – for permanently! This happened a couple of weeks before she showed here.
– Tennessee Williams
A Streetcar Named Desire, Scene 7. Stanley reveals that after the loss of Belle Reve, Blanche moved into the seedy Flamingo Hotel where she acquired a notorious reputation. Her behavior became so wild even for this low-class establishment that they asked her to move out. Stanley takes great delight in exposing Blanche to Stella, mocking her faux-genteel pretensions by calling her "Dame Blanche."