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boardinghouse

noun as in rooming house

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Years later, she expressed regret about the way she had depicted a Black character who lives at the boardinghouse with the protagonist.

Two more of Washington’s “people”—a groom named Giles and a coach driver named Paris—stayed nearby in a boardinghouse.

Activities at recreational camps and boardinghouses were limited by the presence of wildfires in parts of the country, and the industry still hasn’t fully recovered after the declines recorded in May and June.

Soon there was hardly room in his moldering Cotswolds mansion for his second wife, Elizabeth, who eventually moved to a boardinghouse in Torquay, an English working-class seaside resort.

In awe, the people watched as their president disappeared into the boardinghouse.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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