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
His mother, Sally, was a telephone operator who later had a jewelry store and ran a rooming house.
From New York Times • 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
The cop directed him to a rooming house, where he was given a cot in the hall.
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
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