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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

Georgia Kemp, a cook at the Elks Club, invited him to move into her rooming house at 20th Avenue and East Madison.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 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

All of a sudden, I had no ship, I had no rooming house, and I had no girlfriend.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson




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