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Definition of "boarding-house" []

  • A house of entertainment, more home-like than a hotel or restaurant, where persons are furnished with board for a fixed price. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

Use "boarding-house" in a sentence
  • "As we sailed up the San Francisco water-front, the moment the port doctors passed us, the boarding-house runners were alongside in whitehall boats."
  • "After a week's stay in a sailors 'boarding-house, he had been shoved aboard of us as an able seaman."
  • "From two days to a week saw the end of their money and saw them being carted by the boarding-house masters on board outward-bound ships."