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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

At a rooming house, for example, tenants didn’t need to buy sheets and towels, dishes, or furniture.

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2022

“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 Melvin Glover continued to make music with another member of the group, Scorpio, Mr. Glover was soon working a temp job and living in a modest Bronx rooming house.

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

Upstairs on Tante Jans’s tall mahogany chair sat the lady who ran the rooming house where Otto lived.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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