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boardinghouse

[bawr-ding-hous, bohr-] / ˈbɔr dɪŋˌhaʊs, ˈboʊr- /


NOUN
rooming house
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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.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

Another is Marie-Christine Lippman, whose family foundation runs a boardinghouse on land owned by Sothea’s family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Their gathering place, a Victorian boardinghouse, was christened Casa Susanna after one of its founders, Susanna Valenti, a translator and broadcaster, who was married to Marie Tonell, a New York wig maker.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2023

In the 1940s, the mansion was converted to a boardinghouse, then it fell into disrepair.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

I was a Hello Girl and now I am here, a hermit in a boardinghouse, protected by a disheveled fortress of my dirty clothes and empty tins, and Theo knows absolutely nothing.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse