boardinghouse
Noun
Meaning
a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests
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Inspector – Man who conducts a proceeding at Josef K.'s boardinghouse to inform K. officially that he is under arrest.
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.
The boardinghouse became 437 ½ Seventh Street Northwest (formerly 488-1/2 Seventh Street West).
Her story begins when she is living in a boardinghouse and working as a secretary in the typing pool at a law firm.