ˈlodging-house
A house, other than an inn or hotel, in which lodgings are let.
| 1766 Smollett Trav. I. viii. 139, I was directed to a lodging house at Lyons, which being full they shewed us to a tavern. 1814 Bisset Guide to Leamington 23 Every house in Leamington (the Author's and two others excepted) are appropriated as Lodging or Boarding Houses. 1838 Dickens Nich. Nick. xvi, One street of gloomy lodging-houses. 1891 C. T. C. James Rom. Rigmarole 94 Elise, old, worn, haggard, and dying in a common lodging-house close by. |
| attrib. c 1815 Jane Austen Persuasion (1833) I. xi. 300 Captain Harville did his best to supply the deficiencies of lodging-house furniture. 1848 Dickens Dombey vi, Lodging-house keepers were favourable in like manner. |
b. transf. and
fig.| 1851 Borrow Lavengro xcviii. (1900) 534 It seems all the drains and sewers of the place run into that same salt basin..on which account the town is a famous lodging-house of the plague. 1858 J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 206 Temporary settlers and mercantile agents..to whom Italy was a lodging-house rather than a home. |