doss house

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noun Chiefly British.

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Origin of doss house

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby doss house

Dos Passos, John, doss, dossal, dosser, dosseret, doss house, dossier, dossil, dost, Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky, Feodor

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How to use doss house in a sentence

This identification is to help Rosalind, as she may not be able to spot this particular doss-house among all she knows.
Somehow Good|William de Morgan
From the purely technical standpoint, moreover, "The Doss-house" is full of defects.
Maxim Gorki|Hans Ostwald
It was a doorless place, with stone-flagged corridor—in other words, a "doss-house."
The Island Pharisees|John Galsworthy
As for Sonia, she'd consent to sleep in a doss-house, if she were doing it for the first time—a new experience, you know.
Sonia Married|Stephen McKenna

But a vagabond rat turned it out, and made a doss-house of it.
Birds of the wave and woodland|Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson

British Dictionary definitions for doss house

dosshouse

/ (ˈdɒsˌhaʊs) /

noun

British slang a cheap lodging house, esp one used by trampsUS and Canadian name: flophouse

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