- a variation of boardinghouse.
boarding house
Example Sentences
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Jasmine stays at a Florida boarding house run by Lillian, who calls her new tenant Jazzy and helps her with bus fare to New York City.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
Recognising Nigeria's deeply religious society, Charterhouse also permits parents to take their children home from the boarding house for Sunday church services, with the expectation that they return by Monday morning.
From BBC ● Mar. 29, 2025
Upstairs from the bar in the boarding house, lost souls confess their secrets to a prairie witch named the Antidote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
Gladys' mother, Catherine Kearney, was a servant working at a boarding house in Drogheda in Ireland when she became pregnant.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
In fact, nearly every inn, tavern, and boarding house had some manner of musician strumming, singing, or piping in the background.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
