boardinghouse
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of boardinghouse
First recorded in 1720–30
Example Sentences
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Eventually, Frieda leaves and moves into Gulls Nest, a seaside boardinghouse.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025
Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025
Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 12, 2024
Schwartz herself accomplishes something similar across the short subsections of each chapter, slowly and elegantly assembling a sprawling boardinghouse out of the twigs and branches of sometimes little-studied lives.
From Washington Post • Mar. 1, 2023
Soon after Singer returned to his room at the boardinghouse, Mick and Jake Blount and Doctor Copeland began to come again.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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