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dosshouse

/ ˈɒˌʊ /

noun

  1. slang.
    a cheap lodging house, esp one used by tramps US and Canadian nameflophouse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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He stays in dosshouses where he sleeps in a narrow room with one lightbulb and no water, and later in a hotel “whose outdoor lavatory stands in a thicket of snarling dogs.”

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Oh, when he came to see me at the dosshouse?

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Guarantee to every citizen, whether he works or whether he loafs, a bare minimum of existence—say sixpence a day and a bed in the common dosshouse.

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The labouring man gets pity and cents galore—we get nothing!—nothing but rotten pay whilst we work, and when we're out of work, dosshouses or kerbstones.

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"That, my soul, is a question that fate will settle for you, so do not worry," said the Captain, thoughtfully, entering the dosshouse.

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