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US
/ˈbɔɹdɪŋˌhaʊs/
]
NOUN
- a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests
How To Use boardinghouse In A Sentence
- The bedroom at the top of the boardinghouse was a loft with two windows that looked up to the sky. Soul
- There were four such flats in each building, and each of the four was a "boardinghouse" for the occupancy of foreigners -- Lithuanians, Poles, Slovaks, or The Jungle
- Gitalis and I could sleep at the theatre overnight, and we could surely find a boardinghouse that would provide you ladies snug harbor. PAINT THE WIND
- From the tender age of twelve, my mother had been unable to start her day without the aid of at least two cups of immoderately strong, tar-black, unsweetened coffee, a taste for which she had picked up from the tugboat captains and zooty bachelors who filled the boardinghouse where she had grown up. Middlesex
- Impossible, also, to imagine him calling the boardinghouse again and again until finally Mrs. O’Toole said, “Listen, sugar. Middlesex
- Even without the need to keep on the lookout for the neighbors as I made a mad dash to a waiting taxi, the boardinghouse had become nothing more than a crash pad.
- Hotels and boardinghouses were sold out, and some halls and bars spread pallets upon their floors to accommodate wayworn arrivals. A Country of Vast Designs
- Later I went to Breslau, the capital of our province, where I lived in boardinghouses and attended a Gerhart Hauptmann - Autobiography
- He engaged in all-night poker games in boardinghouse rooms throughout the city.
- The boardinghouse will be the fourth door on your left. Into the Thinking Kingdoms