rooming house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rooming house
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
Example Sentences
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This explosive, eye-opening work came from Ivy League professor Desmond moving to a trailer park and rooming house in a poverty-stricken part of Milwaukee.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2025
“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
If the gossip ran rampant and Ba tried to force me to marry, I could still get another job and move into some cheap rooming house.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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