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boardinghouse

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boardinghouse
A house that rents furnished rooms and provides meals for boarders in exchange for the payment of a weekly or monthly charge; especially used by workers and transients in mill towns primarily from the 18th to the early 20th centuries.
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I MUST have that, `as a went' -- and I'll have to wait until I get into my boardinghouse bed tonight, wherever it may be, before I can have it.
Anne of The Island by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context
He would take them to poni Aniele, who kept a boardinghouse the other side of the yards; old Mrs.
The Jungle by Sinclair, Upton View in context
There is this difference between a furnished room and a boardinghouse.
The Four Million by Henry, O. View in context
 
 
 
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