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rooming house

NOUN
house renting out rooms
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On a February day the next year, Galindo, part of a four-man raiding squad, went to a Figueroa Street rooming house to arrest Davis again.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2023

“My mother ran a rooming house on West 77th Street in the 1920s,” Mr. Storch told the Wall Street Journal in 2012.

From Washington Post 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

Never before auctioned, the oars were discovered decades ago by a family cleaning out the basement of a Medford, Massachusetts, rooming house they had purchased.

From Seattle Times Apr. 21, 2022

I was one of the very few males in this rooming house.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey




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