Noun
a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests
Source: WordNetInspector – Man who conducts a proceeding at Josef K.'s boardinghouse to inform K. officially that he is under arrest. Source: Internet
I’d like to think that I’d have been one of the adventuresses, but possibly that’s wishful thinking and I would be running a boardinghouse or married to a businessman who’d no further expectations of me. Source: Internet
The boardinghouse became 437 ½ Seventh Street Northwest (formerly 488-1/2 Seventh Street West). Source: Internet
Her story begins when she is living in a boardinghouse and working as a secretary in the typing pool at a law firm. Source: Internet