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Shops like John Lewis and Argos still sell hostess trolleys - brushed-steel and beech-effect trolleys add a more contemporary edge to the design, which is less reminiscent of dreary boarding-houses by the sea.

From BBC • Sep. 7, 2018

Leaving the parlour door open in winter—a perpetual occurrence at hotels and boarding-houses.

From The Ladies' Guide to True Politeness and Perfect Manners or, Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book by Leslie, Eliza

Procuring employment in a machine-shop, the inventor took up his abode in one of the cheapest emigrant boarding-houses.

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

At Hadbury there were many honours of this kind to be won—the "footer" shield, the racquets trophy, and other prizes of a similar nature, which excited keen competition between the different boarding-houses.

From Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys by Avery, Harold

The village, with all its bustling life, its noisy boarding-houses, its well-filled drinking booths, its roystering lumber-jacks released from their day's toil, was powerless to disturb that repose.

From The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley by Cullum, Ridgwell