单词 | model lodging house |
释义 | > as lemmasmodel lodging house model lodging house n. now Scottish any of a number of lodging houses established c1840–5 by various philanthropists, and placed under certain regulations intended to secure the comfort and orderly conduct of the residents; later in extended use, applied to other lodging houses regardless of standard. ΚΠ 1847 Illustr. London News 23 Jan. 61 Model Lodging House in St. Giles's. 1892 Econ. Jrnl. 2 416 The writer describes a model lodging-house which she established in the docks district. Miss March-Phillips found that ‘better surroundings do in time incline the very roughtest to a better habit of living’. 1973 People's Jrnl. (Inverness) 28 July 1/3 One solution, Mr Macdonald thinks, might be a ‘model’ lodging house as there was in the burgh half-a-century ago. < as lemmas |
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