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ˈlodging-house
A house, other than an inn or hotel, in which lodgings are let.
1766Smollett Trav. I. viii. 139, I was directed to a lodging house at Lyons, which being full they shewed us to a tavern. 1814Bisset Guide to Leamington 23 Every house in Leamington (the Author's and two others excepted) are appropriated as Lodging or Boarding Houses. 1838Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, One street of gloomy lodging-houses. 1891C. T. C. James Rom. Rigmarole 94 Elise, old, worn, haggard, and dying in a common lodging-house close by.
attrib.c1815Jane Austen Persuasion (1833) I. xi. 300 Captain Harville did his best to supply the deficiencies of lodging-house furniture. 1848Dickens Dombey vi, Lodging-house keepers were favourable in like manner.
b. transf. and fig.
1851Borrow Lavengro xcviii. (1900) 534 It seems all the drains and sewers of the place run into that same salt basin..on which account the town is a famous lodging-house of the plague. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 206 Temporary settlers and mercantile agents..to whom Italy was a lodging-house rather than a home. |