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doss-houses

noun

plural of doss-house, chiefly British
as in lodging houses

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boardinghouses
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  • By the eve of World War I, Opatija boasted 24 hotels, 36 boardinghouses, and 12 sanatoriums attended by 80 physicians.
    — Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • Behind Jovan, the posse breaks into boardinghouses, yanks a miner from behind a grocery counter, shoots another dead in his home.
    — Masha Hamilton, Longreads, 19 Feb. 2026
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