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boarding house

noun

  1. type of accomodation
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Wiktionary

noun

  1. A private house in which paying residents are provided with accommodation and meals.

    Yet Clacton, like every other station at a big seaside resort, is bedevilled by the traditional insistence of boarding-house landladies that their clients must arrive on Saturday before lunch and leave on Saturday after breakfast.

  2. A boarding school building where boarders live during term time.