boarding house

noun

He lived in a boarding house in Cambridge, Mass., while Ina stayed on Long Island with their son Chase, who was in school.

According to one local Houston news report, the Batavia, New York native had been living in some sort of boarding house.

Bill ended up in a boarding house, whose owner one day found him, then 40, unconscious having suffered a blow to his head.

Think of it as a boarding house where a bunch of criminals hang out—some are petty thieves; others are killers.

Cleveland escorted Halpin back to her room at a downtown boarding house.

Yet the word is general and apparently unconnected with the house, as it was not a stable but a boarding-house.

Each soldier had his boarding-house, where he lived when off duty, as a member of the family.

Half-way up stood the74 boarding-house where the godmother was living.

And then, in silence, the trip to town was made, at last to draw up in front of the boarding house.

At present he seems to be all neck and legs—like the chickens they use to make boarding-house fricassees.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

[flab-er-gast ]

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