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Meanings of dosshouse in English

Catalan
pensió de mala mort
Spanish
cotarro

A cheap lodging house.

pensió de mala mort
Synonyms
Examples for "flophouse"
Examples for "flophouse"
1
Inside, the former backpackers' flophouse has been turned into five majestic homes.
News.com.au
2
The address she had for Creach was a flophouse off Freedom Drive.
Bones of the Lost
3
Meyer dropped Pete back at a flophouse too depressing for a nightcap.
Big bosoms and square jaws
4
A fifty-nine-year-old crackhead overdosed in a pay-by-the-night flophouse near the Chinatown gate.
Cross Bones
5
There's kind of a dive spot around the corner from Beauvais's flophouse.
Raging Heat
Usage of dosshouse in English
1
The dark figure of Martyanoff appeared at the door of the dosshouse.
Creatures That Once Were Men
2
The light was fitful, and dark shadows flickered on the dosshouse walls.
Creatures That Once Were Men
3
Aristid Fomich got up, and went with firm steps into the dosshouse.
Creatures That Once Were Men
4
The light in the windows of the dosshouse flickered, paled, and suddenly disappeared.
Creatures That Once Were Men
5
The sound re-echoed from the dirty walls of the dosshouse and died away.
Creatures That Once Were Men
6
The drops of rain sounded strangely on the iron roof of the dosshouse.
Creatures That Once Were Men
7
The Captain entered the dosshouse, and stood at the teacher's feet.
Creatures That Once Were Men
8
And in the dawn, which filled the dosshouse, a solemn stillness reigned over all.
Creatures That Once Were Men
9
He shared rooms in a Brixton dosshouse with Nico, formerly of the Velvet Underground.
The Guardian
10
When the teacher appeared in the dosshouse, Tyapa had already lived there for some time.
Creatures That Once Were Men
11
On the walls of the dosshouse the shadows were creeping, seeming to chase each other.
Creatures That Once Were Men
12
Yesterday, Ivan Andreyevitch Petunikoff was in the dosshouse yard with his son and an architect.
Creatures That Once Were Men
13
Tyapa got up and went out of the dosshouse.
Creatures That Once Were Men
14
At the door of the dosshouse its inhabitants stood in a group, yawning, and scratching themselves.
Creatures That Once Were Men
15
The Russian novelist, when he describes a dosshouse, says, "Creatures that once were Men."
Creatures That Once Were Men
16
They spoke no more of Petunikoff, or of the turning out of the inhabitants of the dosshouse.
Creatures That Once Were Men
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