rooming house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rooming house
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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I visited Richey at the 30-unit rooming house where she pays $925 a month for a bed in a tiny shared unit.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024
“My mother ran a rooming house on West 77th Street in the 1920s,” Mr. Storch told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2022
While living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s East 67th Street, he met a blond public school teacher named Marion Raymond who was finishing her master’s thesis.
From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022
Never before auctioned, the oars were discovered decades ago by a family cleaning out the basement of a Medford, Massachusetts, rooming house they had purchased.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 21, 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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