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doss house

noun

, Chiefly British.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of doss house1

First recorded in 1885–90
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Example Sentences

This identification is to help Rosalind, as she may not be able to spot this particular doss-house among all she knows.

From the purely technical standpoint, moreover, "The Doss-house" is full of defects.

It was a doorless place, with stone-flagged corridor—in other words, a "doss-house."

As for Sonia, she'd consent to sleep in a doss-house, if she were doing it for the first time—a new experience, you know.

But a vagabond rat turned it out, and made a doss-house of it.

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