doss house
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How to use doss house in a sentence
This identification is to help Rosalind, as she may not be able to spot this particular doss-house among all she knows.
Somehow Good | William de MorganFrom the purely technical standpoint, moreover, "The Doss-house" is full of defects.
Maxim Gorki | Hans OstwaldIt was a doorless place, with stone-flagged corridor—in other words, a "doss-house."
The Island Pharisees | John GalsworthyAs for Sonia, she'd consent to sleep in a doss-house, if she were doing it for the first time—a new experience, you know.
Sonia Married | Stephen McKennaBut a vagabond rat turned it out, and made a doss-house of it.
Birds of the wave and woodland | Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson
British Dictionary definitions for dosshouse
/ (ˈdɒsˌhaʊs) /
British slang a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps: US and Canadian name: flophouse
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