单词 | rooming house |
释义 | rooming housen. North American and Australian. A building divided into furnished rooms or apartments for rent. 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 1873 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 10 May 2/3 (advt.) Situation wanted by a middle-aged woman, as housekeeper in a hotel or rooming house. 1893 Spectator 16 Sept. 366/1 We go to no hotel, but look for what Americans call a ‘rooming house’, i.e., a house which lets furnished apartments. 1911 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 Apr. 13/1 (advt.) 14 roomed house, just overhauled, repainted and in first class condition. One of the best rooming house propositions in the city. 1923 E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods iii. ii. 105 Fairfax Avenue was now a nondescript street of rooming houses, apartments and carpet-cleaning establishments. 1957 V. Nabokov Pnin iii. 64 There had been—in yet another rooming house—a still cozier bedroom-study. 1961 Daily Tel. 25 Mar. 16/5 The body of a woman.., was found by police officers last night in a rooming house in Lorenzo Street, King's Cross. 1973 Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 3/3 Police said another grandchild witnessed the stabbings in a rooming house. 2003 J. Lethem Fortress of Solitude i. i. 7 The Dutch-style row houses had been chopped into pieces and misused as rooming houses for men with hot plates and ashtrays and racing forms. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1873 |
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