rest home
a residential establishment that provides special care for convalescents and aged or infirm persons.
Origin of rest home
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How to use rest home in a sentence
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
Phyllis Diller Dies at 95: The Comedian’s 20 Funniest Zingers | Maria Elena Fernandez | August 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFrankie uses his insurance money to open a rest home on Mars for ailing musicians.
The Flying Cuspidors | V. R. FrancisAfter working in Minsk for one year I received a vacation and went to a rest home near Leningrad.
Warren Commission (1 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThree weeks in the rest home, and one week I spent in Leningrad with some friends.
Warren Commission (1 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President KennedyThis is my notebook, various addresses—when I was at the rest home, I simply noted down the addresses of some acquaintances.
Warren Commission (1 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) | The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
The right word, he thought dismally, was going to be "rest home."
Occasion for Disaster | Gordon Randall Garrett
British Dictionary definitions for rest-home
an old people's home
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