as in rooming house
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Noun
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The real estate agents said that a single-family home would essentially become a rooming house with unrelated tenants sharing living spaces that are normally overseen by zoning regulations.—
Christopher Keating,
Hartford Courant,
16 Apr. 2026 -
Police said a woman was stabbed multiple times inside a rooming house on the 5500 block of West Girard Avenue in West Philly on Sunday.—
Tom Ignudo,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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The backyard of the lodging house on Hanbury Street, where Annie Chapman died, had three possible exits through neighboring yards; there were five at Mitre Square, where forty-six-year-old Catherine Eddowes bled out in a dark corner.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
31 Oct. 2025
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Research trips took them to local lodging houses, private family homes, and vintage Deco hotels including Bombay’s Bentley’s Hotel and Sea Green Hotel on Marine Drive.—
Nicole Trilivas,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
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