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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

She lived in a rooming house where people helped one another get by, lending money as they got paid on different days, making sure she could feed her daughter, she said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

In a seedy rooming house apartment, as one man rehearses his three-card monte spiel — “watch me close, watch me close now” — Abraham Lincoln arrives with Chinese takeout.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2022

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

From Slate • Jul. 17, 2022

Apart from these details, this could be a college guest room, for the less distinguished visitors; or a room in a rooming house, of former times, for ladies in reduced circumstances.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood




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