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boardinghouse

noun as in rooming house

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For years she lived with her dog, Rambo, in an 1896 three-story Victorian on Clayton Street in the Haight that she bought in 1960, and ran as a boardinghouse worthy of one of Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City” characters.

Instead, Dylan’s music helps set the tone for a moody and devastating Broadway production following a group of people at a boardinghouse in 1930s Minnesota.

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He had a large room at a fashionable boardinghouse, and he paid fourteen dollars a week.

These remarks of Dijen Babu, my roommate at the Panthi boardinghouse, were called forth by my invitation that he meet my guru.

In one hand I would carry an offering for my guru-a few flowers from the garden of my Panthi boardinghouse.

The other time Eliphalet spoke was to ask Mr. Barbo to direct him to a boardinghouse.

They are a fine old couple, and I don't like to think of them herding with Freshmen in a shine boardinghouse.

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On this page you'll find 21 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to boardinghouse, such as: apartment, board, crib, digs, hotel, and house.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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