rooming house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rooming house
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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On a February day the next year, Galindo, part of a four-man raiding squad, went to a Figueroa Street rooming house to arrest Davis again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 31, 2023
Johnson said he helped Arias-Lopez move several times, most recently a few years ago into a rooming house off Georgia Avenue where another man who attended the church also lived.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2022
After moving out of the rooming house, he rented an apartment nearby, where he again had trouble with his neighbors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022
Upstairs on Tante Jans’s tall mahogany chair sat the lady who ran the rooming house where Otto lived.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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