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rooming house

–noun
a house with furnished rooms to rent; lodging house.

Origin:
1890–95, Americanism
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room·ing house   (rōō'mĭng, rŏŏm'ĭng)
n.  A house where lodgers may rent rooms.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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