dosshouse
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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He stays in dosshouses where he sleeps in a narrow room with one lightbulb and no water, and later in a hotel “whose outdoor lavatory stands in a thicket of snarling dogs.”
From Washington Post
Oh, when he came to see me at the dosshouse?
From Project Gutenberg
Guarantee to every citizen, whether he works or whether he loafs, a bare minimum of existence—say sixpence a day and a bed in the common dosshouse.
From Project Gutenberg
The labouring man gets pity and cents galore—we get nothing!—nothing but rotten pay whilst we work, and when we're out of work, dosshouses or kerbstones.
From Project Gutenberg
Petunikoff smiled the smile of the conqueror and went back into the dosshouse, but suddenly he stopped and trembled.
From Project Gutenberg
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