boarding house

noun

a private house in which accommodation and meals are provided for paying guests
a house for boarders at a school See also house

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Mr Roffe-Silvester, who was asleep in his own quarters, was woken by noises coming from the boarding house and went to investigate.

From BBC

Gladys' mother, Catherine Kearney, was a servant working at a boarding house in Drogheda in Ireland when she became pregnant.

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In several emails, a man identifying himself as the property’s owner thanked The Times for its reporting and said his “tenants” have agreed to close the “boarding house” before a June hearing date and convert it into family living.

From Los Angeles Times

They had run a boarding house in Coatesville, but abandoned the business and left town as the scandal garnered national attention, she said.

From Seattle Times

Of course, in some corners of the dark web, she was better known as UKFlamethrower1999 or DundeeDeathMonger707, but mostly she was just Char, as the girls in the boarding house called her.

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