pension house

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1. A home for the elderly; an old folks' home.

   Nowadays, Consonno is inhabitated by the guests of an elders' pensionhouse and the only family who has survived the 1960's and 1970's relocation programs: a status of ghost town which has somewhat avoided a large health problem, […]

   2007, Franco Alessandro Cavalleri, Our Common Future. 20 years after.

2. A lodging which is usually less exquisite and thus more affordable than a hotel.

   There is, besides, the H. de Bains, in a garden by the riverside, the resort of persons drinking the waters of a mineral spring; it is a sort of Pensionhouse and Inn.

   1884, John Murray, A Handbook for Travellers in France