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lodging house

NOUN
bed and breakfast
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NOUN
rooming house
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On good ones, they found a lodging house and raced upstairs, hoping to claim a catnap before that evening’s gig.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2024

At issue appears to be the legal definition of short-term rentals versus a bed-and-breakfast or lodging house.

From Washington Times • Mar. 25, 2019

Everything else loomed large—the condition of the tenements, the perils of the ghetto, the moral dangers of the kitchenette, the risks presented by too many bodies forced into the cramped rooms of the lodging house.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 9, 2019

The correspondent said the Martha Washington was “so superior to the New York boarding and lodging house that it cannot be considered in the same breath.”

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2012

They reached the port at the river’s mouth to find every hotel, every lodging house, every private room commandeered by soldiers.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman




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