单词 | lodging-house |
释义 | lodging-housen. a. A house, other than an inn or hotel, in which lodgings are let. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > boarding house pensiona1652 boarding-house1728 lodging-house1766 private hotel1796 drum1846 boarding-place1854 lodging-hall1860 rooming house1873 chawl1891 model1899 guest house1925 kipping-house1925 pensione1929 pensionnat1963 1766 T. Smollett Trav. France & Italy I. viii. 139 I was directed to a lodging house at Lyons, which being full they shewed us to a tavern. 1814 Bisset Guide to Leamington 23 Every house in Leamington (the Author's and two others excepted) are appropriated as Lodging or Boarding Houses. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby xvi. 143 One street of gloomy lodging-houses. 1891 C. T. C. James Romantic Rigmarole 94 Elise, old, worn, haggard, and dying in a common lodging-house close by. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1851 G. Borrow Lavengro (1900) xcviii. 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. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 206 Temporary settlers and mercantile agents..to whom Italy was a lodging-house rather than a home. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1766 |
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