Definition of "boardinghouses" []

• Plural form of boardinghouse. (noun)

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• "Thenceforth, for a week, the Young Manchus meant to separate, revert to Chinese costume, live in Chinese boardinghouses in the East End, and thus utterly mislead and bamboozle the police, who, in their hunt for the miscreants, would be searching for Chinamen in European dress and living in European style."
• "Later I went to Breslau, the capital of our province, where I lived in boardinghouses and attended a"
• "She operated boardinghouses in which wealthy businessmen were paired with prostitutes."