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rooming house
noun
- a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
rooming house
noun
- a house having self-contained furnished rooms or flats for renting
Word History and Origins
Origin of rooming house1
Example Sentences
When I returned to the rooming house in the late afternoon, I found a handwritten note pinned to the front door.
From a second-story window of a rooming house covered with red brick-patterned tarpaper comes the sound of a blues harmonica.
Robinson signed on for $63.25 a month and moved into a rooming house.
He ran all the way back to Lucy's house, threw down the key he had got from her, and then went to his own rooming-house.
He had been going to report to Webber when he had run into that golden field in the rooming-house hallway.
She swayed back from his close glance and ran up the first three steps of her rooming-house.
At Lulu's rooming-house they lingered again, talking in subdued tones on the brownstone stoop.
At that time he was living in one room (rear) of a shabby rooming house in Thirty-ninth Street.
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