The word 'houseboat' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It refers to a boat or floating structure that is designed and used as a dwelling place, typically equipped with amenities found in traditional houses. Example: The couple spent their summer vacation on a beautiful houseboat, cruising along the peaceful river and enjoying the scenic view of the countryside.
He lived on a houseboat, had a steady stream of passionate liaisons, and always stood his round in the bar.
Five years later, she built a houseboat on Hickling Broad, Norfolk, where locals "looked on me as a harmless lunatic," she recalled.
The houseboat is £250,000 and 55ft or so of bling.
Swap that pretty, pastel-coloured fisherman's cottage for a luxury American houseboat well beyond the seagulls' dawn chorus.
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Oceanus is a 10-minute ride from the town quay in the launch that comes with the houseboat.
The early novels draw on many autobiographical elements: "The Bookshop" (1978) borrows from Fitzgerald's time working in a cash-strapped Southwold shop; her Booker prize-winning "Offshore" (1979) deals with a houseboat community on the River Thames; and "Human Voices" (1980) fictionalises her wartime experiences at the BBC.
"The big problem now is finding a mooring," says Matt Ashmall of RoyScot Larch, a marine-finance company that offers loans to houseboat buyers.
Avery's paint brushes, dipped in Nile water, wash the Chiltern hills of his childhood on to Jean's naked back as she lies on the deck of their houseboat.
And in Calcutta the former first mate on the Ibis, Zachary Reid, ivory-skinned but hiding his black ancestry, is repairing a houseboat that once belonged to Neel but which had been acquired by the wealthy English opium trader who broke him.
Well, I don't really know, which is why, for the first few days we were staying on our friend's houseboat, I didn't let her swim.
