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rooming house

NOUN
house renting out rooms
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I visited Richey at the 30-unit rooming house where she pays $925 a month for a bed in a tiny shared unit.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2024

Johnson said he helped Arias-Lopez move several times, most recently a few years ago into a rooming house off Georgia Avenue where another man who attended the church also lived.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

His mother, Sally, was a telephone operator who later had a jewelry store and ran a rooming house.

From New York Times • Jul. 8, 2022

While living in a rooming house on Manhattan’s East 67th Street, he met a blond public school teacher named Marion Raymond who was finishing her master’s thesis.

From Slate • Jul. 4, 2022

Joe gave the same alibi Rose did: on the night of May 21, 1921, they had been together in Pawnee, seventeen miles southwest of Gray Horse, and had stopped at a rooming house.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann