| 单词 | rowton house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRowton house Chiefly in Rowton house (also Rowton lodging-house): a type of cheap lodging house intended to provide accommodation of a decent standard for single workingmen.The last of the Rowton houses to be built, Arlington House in Camden, London, was still operating as a hostel in the early 21st cent. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > public lodging-places > [noun] > common lodging house common lodging house1748 kip1879 doss-house1888 Rowton house1897 fleabag1907 flop1910 flop-house1923 hotbed1939 1892 Coming Day Nov. 176/1 In the event of Rowton House being, as Lord Rowton anticipates, commercially successful, it is proposed to open similar houses in other parts of London.] 1897 Rev. of Reviews Jan. 59/2 He heard of Rowton Houses and investigated them thoroughly. He studied the whole question of lodging-houses for men. 1899 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Mar. 259/1 The latest of the ‘Rowtons’, as they are colloquially called by those who use them, is on an enormous scale. 1901 R. Calkins Substitutes for Saloon xi. 297 The latest of the ‘Rowtons’ has provision for over eight hundred men. 1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. ii. 355 He had drifted from lodgings to Salvation Army hostels and Rowton Houses. 2005 B. Cleverley Bee's Kiss (2007) xvii. 212 At night, if trade has been good, I make my way to a Rowton House. It costs one and sixpence a night..for decent, if plain, accommodation. < as lemmas |
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