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boardinghouse::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | boarding house |
| Type of | house |
| Has types | bed-and-breakfast, bed and breakfast |
Examples of boardinghouse
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There is Chow Bing Fai sitting in his boardinghouse room on Main Street in 1976.
From the sacbee.com
Ruben Santiago-Hudson wrote this warm account of his boyhood in a boardinghouse.
From the freep.com
Back at his boardinghouse, Madison slipped off his boots and scanned the papers.
From the time.com
When you can't rent rooms in a boardinghouse, you're going to go out of business.
From the washingtonpost.com
She agrees and sets her room in the local boardinghouse as the appointed place.
From the time.com
A Mississippi girl falls for an out-of-towner at her mother's 1930s boardinghouse.
From the post-gazette.com
She eventually opened a notorious brothel in Texas and later, a boardinghouse.
From the sfgate.com
To support herself and her surviving son, Ellen opened a boardinghouse for seamen.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The remaining building from the 1850s was Gipfel's saloon and boardinghouse.
From the jsonline.com
- Boarding house: a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests
- A boarding house, is a house (often a family home) in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. ...
- Residential facility other than an apartment building, hotel/motel, or restaurant where meals and/or lodging are provided in exchange for monetary compensation for three or more persons.
- Any residential structure where lodging or lodging and meals are provided for compensation for a period or atleast two weeks, and where a family residing in the building acts as proprietor or owner. There is no provision for cooking in any individual room.
- A building where sleeping rooms are rented to three or more individuals where meals may or may not be provided. Boardinghouse includes the term rooming house.
