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
She lived in a rooming house where people helped one another get by, lending money as they got paid on different days, making sure she could feed her daughter, she said.
From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate • Jul. 17, 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
At five o'clock Otis Amber skipped out of the rooming house, hopped on his bicycle, and returned to Sunset Towers empty- handed.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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