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Blackpool, sweeping the planks of his mother’s boardinghouse while listening to a staticky radio broadcast.
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Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
After resorting to desperate measures by burning down a boardinghouse and stealing money and a palomino horse, Tom and Polly set out for San Francisco.
—Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
Others managed to scramble onto the roof of an adjacent boardinghouse.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
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Chloe Schama, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2024
After resorting to desperate measures by burning down a boardinghouse and stealing money and a palomino horse, Tom and Polly set out for San Francisco.
—Malcolm Forbes, Washington Post, 7 July 2024
Others managed to scramble onto the roof of an adjacent boardinghouse.
—Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
Everyone keeps to themselves at Briarwood House, a down-at-the-heels all-female boardinghouse in the heart of the nation’s capital, where secrets hide behind white picket fences.
—Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 21 June 2024
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“Boardinghouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/boardinghouse. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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boardinghouse
noun
board·ing·house
ˈbōrd-iŋ-ˌhau̇s 
ˈbȯrd-
: a house at which persons are boarded
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