boardinghouse

[ bawr-ding-hous, bohr- ]

/ ˈbɔr dɪŋˌhaʊs, ˈboʊr- /

a house at which board or board and lodging may be obtained for payment.

Origin of boardinghouse

First recorded in 1720–30

We lived there at a boardinghouse, and she behaved badly, very badly.

In the Year of Jubilee |George Gissing
The first person I met in the boardinghouse compound was the scholarly Romesh.

Autobiography of a YOGI |Paramhansa Yogananda
When we arrived at my boardinghouse the landlady put her to bed at once and I did not see her again until the next morning.

The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |Willa Cather
The main point was that this furnace man had begged Miss Ryerson not to leave her boardinghouse until he returned.

The Conquest of America |Cleveland Moffett

Before I left here, I found at a boardinghouse where he had boarded, and still owed a bill, a trunk which the landlord retained.

The Story of a Mine |Bret Harte