rooming house
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of rooming house
An Americanism dating back to 1890–95
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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
At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2022
“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
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
Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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