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boardinghouse

noun as in rooming house

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Young farm women lived in boardinghouses, working 12-14 hour days for cash wages.

Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse.

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Tourists jammed hotels and boardinghouses, but they were not the only newcomers.

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Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.

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Two more of Washington’s “people”—a groom named Giles and a coach driver named Paris—stayed nearby in a boardinghouse.

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

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