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Discover LudwigThe phrase "boarding house" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a residential building that offers meals and lodging for paying guests. For example, "Brian lived in the boarding house on Main Street for several months while he looked for a new place to live."
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boarding house
noun
A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.
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Like Frederick Forsyth's Jackal, out to kill De Gaulle, Galt changes names from state to state and boarding house to boarding house.
Pumpkin pudding was a staple on boarding house menus.
Mme. had boarding house there 37 yrs.
In recent years, it was a boarding house.
"They met in a boarding house on Coney Island.
(At one point it was a boarding house).
This time I'm coming alone and will stay at the Sternwarte boarding house again.
By invoking the boarding house, the project constructs suburban space that breaks the status quo.
Rustomji grew up in a boarding house run by her paternal grandmother.
Angela managed the boarding house, and became the source of his fantasies and writing.
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In James Joyce's short story The Boarding House, Mrs. Mooney's boarding-house in Hardwicke Street accommodates "occasionally artistes from the music halls".
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