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Lodging house   /lˈɑdʒɪŋ haʊs/   Listen
noun
Lodging  n.  
1.
The act of one who, or that which, lodges.
2.
A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a sleeping apartment; often in the plural with a singular meaning. "Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow."
3.
Abiding place; harbor; cover. "Fair bosom... the lodging of delight."
Lodging house, a house where lodgings are provided and let.
Lodging room, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired room.





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"Lodging house" Quotes from Famous Books



... artists, both men and women, and in the evenings they sometimes came to visit him in his room. Once he got drunk and was taken to a police station where a police magistrate frightened him horribly, and once he tried to have an affair with a woman of the town met on the sidewalk before his lodging house. The woman and Enoch walked together three blocks and then the young man grew afraid and ran away. The woman had been drinking and the incident amused her. She leaned against the wall of a building and laughed ...
— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson
... the lodging house swiftly, fearing to be seen from the bookshop. He was very eager to learn if everything was all right, but he did not want the Mifflins to know he was lodging just opposite. Hastening diagonally across the street, ...
— The Haunted Bookshop • Christopher Morley
... steadfastly refused to marry her, still "sore" because she had not "stood by." As he worked only intermittently, and was too closely supervised by the police to do much at his old occupation, Molly was obliged to support the humble menage by scrubbing in a neighboring lodging house and by washing "the odd shirts" of the lodgers. For five years, during which time two children were born, when she was constantly subjected to the taunts of her neighbors, and when all the charitable agencies refused to give help to such an irregular household, Molly happily went ...
— The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets • Jane Addams
... nourishment; hundreds of men who regard it as a godsend to get arrested that they may have shelter from the piercing winds of the night and a bite to eat in the morning. Put your head into this 10-cent lodging house if you want to get some new ideas regarding the "trend of humanity." Glance into this low groggery—but one of several thousand in this great city—and "size up the gang" before being too sure that a "pessimist" is simply a person ...
— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann
... following day we reached St. Inez, the station at the end of the railway, and spent the night in a poor excuse of a lodging house called ...
— Brazilian Sketches • T. B. Ray


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