"lodging-house" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:",
          "text": "After some altercation with the \"mot\" of the \"ken\" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange \"ground,\" &c., for the night's work.",
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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:",
          "text": "[…] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.",
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          "ref": "1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Cheap Lodging-houses”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 82:",
          "text": "WHEN it comes to the question of numbers with this tramps’ army, another factor of serious portent has to be taken into account: the cheap lodging-houses.",
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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter LV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the seventh (Fulfilment), page 234:",
          "text": "“That’s it!” cried Clare, pleased to think that she had reverted to the real pronunciation. “What place is The Herons?”\n“A stylish lodging-house. ’Tis all lodging-houses here, bless ’ee.”",
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          "ref": "1899, Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps, New York: Century, published 1901, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 146, footnote 1:",
          "text": "In Germany and England the tramps usually eat their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses.",
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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": "1913, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “Of That There Could Be No Question”, in Eldorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel, London: Hodder & Stoughton; New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, part I, page 210:",
          "text": "The porte-cochère of his former lodging-house was not yet open; he took up his stand close beside it.",
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          "ref": "1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.",
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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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        "Alternative form of lodging house."
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          "ref": "1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217:",
          "text": "After some altercation with the \"mot\" of the \"ken\" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange \"ground,\" &c., for the night's work.",
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        },
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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:",
          "text": "[…] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need himself.",
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          "ref": "1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Cheap Lodging-houses”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 82:",
          "text": "WHEN it comes to the question of numbers with this tramps’ army, another factor of serious portent has to be taken into account: the cheap lodging-houses.",
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          "ref": "1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter LV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the seventh (Fulfilment), page 234:",
          "text": "“That’s it!” cried Clare, pleased to think that she had reverted to the real pronunciation. “What place is The Herons?”\n“A stylish lodging-house. ’Tis all lodging-houses here, bless ’ee.”",
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          "ref": "1899, Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps, New York: Century, published 1901, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 146, footnote 1:",
          "text": "In Germany and England the tramps usually eat their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses.",
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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": "1913, Baroness Orczy [i.e., Emma Orczy], “Of That There Could Be No Question”, in Eldorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel, London: Hodder & Stoughton; New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC, part I, page 210:",
          "text": "The porte-cochère of his former lodging-house was not yet open; he took up his stand close beside it.",
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          "ref": "1933 January 9, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XXV, in Down and Out in Paris and London, London: Victor Gollancz […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "[…] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.",
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          "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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