doss house

noun Chiefly British.

Origin of doss house

First recorded in 1885–90

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As an environment, the doss-house is interesting enough, but it is imperfect and inadequate.
Maxim Gorki
Hans Ostwald
"The Doss-house" is at most the corollary of this revolution.
Maxim Gorki
Hans Ostwald
Heard he was dying in a doss-house, and must fetch him home and nurse him back to life.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
Jerome K. Jerome
The memory of the doss-house worked in Shelton's mind like poison.
The Island Pharisees
John Galsworthy
But a vagabond rat turned it out, and made a doss-house of it.
Birds of the wave and woodland
Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson