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Meanings of doss-house in English

Place with cheap lodging.

Usage of doss-house in English
1
They were still quarrelling when they staggered back to the doss-house kitchen.
The Complete Jack the Ripper
2
As an environment, the doss-house is interesting enough, but it is imperfect and inadequate.
Maxim Gorki
3
It sounds like a doss-house, or a commune.
The Irish Times
4
Heard he was dying in a doss-house, and must fetch him home and nurse him back to life.
All Roads Lead to Calvary
5
But this isn't a doss-house.
Voices
6
He lends the best part of his remaining funds to his friends, and the rest goes in vodka and his keep at the doss-house.
Maxim Gorki
7
By day the streets are a depression, with their frowzy doss-houses and their vapour-baths.
Nights in London
8
In "The Doss-house" again, our author has struck several wrong chords in his characterisation.
Maxim Gorki
9
The men of the "Doss-house" are again of this type.
Maxim Gorki
10
With it I send an album of sketches of 'The Doss-house' as performed at the Art Theatre in Moscow.
Maxim Gorki
11
The "Doss-house" is for the most part too strong for a provincial public, too agitating, too revolutionary.
Maxim Gorki
12
"The Doss-house" is at most the corollary of this revolution.
Maxim Gorki
13
"The Doss-house" had an unparalleled success when it was performed at the Klein Theater in Berlin.
Maxim Gorki
14
It would not be easy to surpass this truly modern tragedy, even if it is less adroitly philosophical than "The Doss-house."
Maxim Gorki
15
"The Doss-house" is not that tragedy.
Maxim Gorki
16
On one point Gorki is absolutely right: "The Doss-house" is not a tragedy, but a succession of detached scenes, as he himself calls it.
Maxim Gorki
Doss-house through the time