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boardinghouse

[bawr-ding-hous, bohr-] / ˈbɔr dɪŋˌhaʊs, ˈboʊr- /


NOUN
rooming house
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Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

Another is Marie-Christine Lippman, whose family foundation runs a boardinghouse on land owned by Sothea’s family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 8, 2025

Meanwhile, she took odd jobs, working as a maid at a boardinghouse, an office clerk, a stock clerk, a secretary in the state grain office and an assistant in a lawyer’s office.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2023

All five of them shared a single room in a Ballard boardinghouse next to the restaurant where her father worked.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

He scooped up his dæmon and she attended to the scalp wound, licking and cleaning him tenderly as they walked back to their boardinghouse.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman




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