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Definition of Boardinghouses
1. boardinghouse [n] - See also: boardinghouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boardinghouses
Literary usage of Boardinghouses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Financial Incentives for Seismic Rehabilitation of Hazardous Buildings-an (1993)
"... by the promise of decent wages, supervised boardinghouses, and the attractions
of city iife. ..."
2. Lowell: The Story of an Industrial City : a Guide to Lowell National by Thomas Dublin (1993)
"Lowell's first female workers at the Merrimack Manufacturing Company were put up
in wooden boardinghouses. By the mid-1830s, however, firms were adding ..."
3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1857)
"... for effecting their transit at reduced rates; to erect saw-mills and
boardinghouses, and establish schools in different localities, that the people ..."
4. Travels in North America in the Years 1827 and 1828 by Basil Hall (1829)
"... do not think of setting up an establishment of their own at first, but live
at boardinghouses. This apparently comfortless mode of life, is undoubtedly ..."
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