lodging-house

plural lodging-houses

1. alternativeAlternative form of lodging house.

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

   1899, Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps, New York: Century, published 1901, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 146, footnote 1

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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.

   1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, volume 1, page 217

   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.

   1853, Charles Dickens, editor, Household Words, volume 21, page 64

   […] 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.

   1859, Snowden's Magistrates Assistant, page 87

   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.

   1890, Jacob A[ugust] Riis, “The Cheap Lodging-houses”, in How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 82

   “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.”

   1891, Thomas Hardy, chapter LV, in Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volume III, London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […], →OCLC, phase the seventh (Fulfilment), page 234