rooming house

rooming house
a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.
[1890-95, Amer.]

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  • rooming house — A house where bedrooms as such are furnished paying guests. Cedar Rapids Invest. Co. v Commodore Hotel Co. 205 Iowa 736, 218 NW 510, 56 ALR 1098. See lodging house …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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