Meaning of lodging-house | Babel Free

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Noun. [C1]

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“After some altercation with the "mot" of the "ken" (mistress of the lodging-house) about the cleanliness of a knife or fork, my new acquaintance began to arrange⟳ "ground," &c., for the night's work⟳.”

“A successful Australian digger — successful, not merely in siftings and washings, but bearing the title, and its best credentials, of a “nuggetter” − came down from Forest Creek recently and took up his abode in a low lodging-house in Little Bourke Street, Melbourne.”

“[…] going about the county half-naked, but having good clothes, perhaps sent forward⟳ to the lodging-house by his jomer (girl); this is very often a profitable trade⟳; the shallow-cove of course selling all the clothes he does not need⟳ himself.”

“WHEN it comes to the question⟳ of numbers with this tramps’ army, another factor of serious portent has to be taken into account: the cheap lodging-houses.”

““That’s it!” cried Clare, pleased to think⟳ that she had reverted to the real pronunciation. “What place⟳ is The Herons?” “A stylish lodging-house. ’Tis all lodging-houses here, bless ’ee.””

“In Germany and England the tramps usually eat⟳ their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses.”

“1908, O. Henry, “The Shocks of Doom” in The Voice of The City: Further Stories of the Four Million, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914, pp. 96-7, He was either young or old; cheap lodging-houses had flavored him mustily; razors and combs had passed him by; in him drink⟳ had been bottled and sealed in the devil’s bond.”

“The porte-cochère of his former lodging-house was not yet open⟳; he took up his stand⟳ close⟳ beside it.”

“[…] I went for a night to a lodging-house in Bow, where the charge was only eightpence.”

“A boy called Hewitt, awaiting transportation on the Euryalus hulk in the mid-1830s, told an interviewer that the swell-mob would often call⟳ into lodging-houses in order⟳ to recruit "go-alongs" for thieving expeditions: "boys are delighted [they] think⟳ it an honour to go with a swell-mob".”

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