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
Georgia Kemp, a cook at the Elks Club, invited him to move into her rooming house at 20th Avenue and East Madison.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
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
In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel — “watch me close, watch me close now” — Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout.
From New York Times ● Oct. 20, 2022
Otis Amber parked his delivery bike in front of a rooming house and went inside.
From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin
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