doss house


nounChiefly British.

Origin of doss house

1
First recorded in 1885–90

Words Nearby 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 Morgan
  • From the purely technical standpoint, moreover, "The Doss-house" is full of defects.

    Maxim Gorki | Hans Ostwald
  • It was a doorless place, with stone-flagged corridor—in other words, a "doss-house."

    The Island Pharisees | John Galsworthy
  • As 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 McKenna
  • But 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

dosshouse

/ (ˈdɒsˌhaʊs) /


noun
  1. British slang a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps: US and Canadian name: flophouse

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