doss house

noun Chiefly British.

flophouse.

Origin of doss house

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby doss house

Dos Passos, John, doss, dossal, dosser, dosseret, doss house, dossier, dossil, dost, Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky, Feodor

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Example sentences from the Web for doss house

This building was the “Liapin free night-lodging-house” (“doss-house”).
What Shall We Do?|Leo Tolstoy
He had privacies to keep intact, aloofness that made a law to him, and these he never abused, even in a doss-house.
The Life of Francis Thompson|Everard Meynell
How the baron got into the doss-house and why he is a baron is also not sufficiently clear.
Letters of Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov
But a vagabond rat turned it out, and made a doss-house of it.
Birds of the wave and woodland|Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson

The "Doss-house" is for the most part too strong for a provincial public, too agitating, too revolutionary.
Maxim Gorki|Hans Ostwald

British Dictionary definitions for doss house

dosshouse

/ (ˈdɒsˌhaʊs) /

noun

British slang a cheap lodging house, esp one used by trampsUS and Canadian name: flophouse

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单词	doss house
释义	doss house noun Chiefly British. flophouse. Origin of doss house First recorded in 1885–90 Words nearby doss house Dos Passos, John, doss, dossal, dosser, dosseret, doss house, dossier, dossil, dost, Dostoevsky, Dostoyevsky, Feodor Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for doss house This building was the “Liapin free night-lodging-house” (“doss-house”). What Shall We Do?\|Leo Tolstoy He had privacies to keep intact, aloofness that made a law to him, and these he never abused, even in a doss-house. The Life of Francis Thompson\|Everard Meynell How the baron got into the doss-house and why he is a baron is also not sufficiently clear. Letters of Anton Chekhov\|Anton Chekhov But a vagabond rat turned it out, and made a doss-house of it. Birds of the wave and woodland\|Phil (Philip Stewart) Robinson The "Doss-house" is for the most part too strong for a provincial public, too agitating, too revolutionary. Maxim Gorki\|Hans Ostwald British Dictionary definitions for doss house dosshouse / (ˈdɒsˌhaʊs) / noun British slang a cheap lodging house, esp one used by trampsUS and Canadian name: flophouse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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