"lodging-house" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: lodging-houses [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} lodging-house (plural lodging-houses)
  1. Alternative form of lodging house. Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: lodging house
    Sense id: en-lodging-house-en-noun-zYGZ50xj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1853, Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words, volume 21, page 64",
          "text": "A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” − came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.",
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          "ref": "1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87",
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          "ref": "1899, Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps, New York: Century, published 1901, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 146, footnote 1",
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          "text": "1908, O. Henry, “The Shocks of Doom” in The Voice of The City: Further Stories of the Four Million, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914, pp. 96-7,\nHe was either young or old; cheap lodging-houses had flavored him mustily; razors and combs had passed him by; in him drink had been bottled and sealed in the devil’s bond."
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          "ref": "2002, Meg Arnot, Cornelie Usborne, Gender And Crime in Modern Europe, page 82",
          "text": "A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call into lodging-houses in order to recruit \"go-alongs\" for thieving expeditions: \"boys are delighted [they] think it an honour to go with a swell-mob\".",
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