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Definition of Doss house

Doss house
Doss house Doss house A cheap lodging house. They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy. --W. Besant.

Meaning of Doss house from wikipedia

- A flophouse (American English) or doss-house (British English) is a place that has very low-cost lodging, providing space to sleep and minimal amenities...
- Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World...
- Doss House is a 1933 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Frank Cellier, Arnold Bell and Herbert Franklyn. It was written by Herbert...
- London guidebook". The book suggested the Rowton Houses owned by Rowton Hotels Ltd were doss-houses for the homeless. He and the publishers Jonathan Cape...
- increase in migrant labor and pressure on housing. The common lodging house or "doss house" developed to accommodate transients. Urbanisation also led to an...
- Nannie Doss (born Nancy Hazel, November 4, 1905 – June 2, 1965) was an American serial killer responsible for the deaths of 11 people between 1927 and...
- Doss House Waltz (1985, Gemini Productions, Eblana Theatre, Dublin) The Gingerbread Lady The Guernica Hotel (Red Kettle TC, World premiere) The House...
- time and No. 59 in the directors' poll. After spending the night at a doss house, where he has taken pictures for a book of art photographs, photographer...
- bought out by the Kilmartin family in the 1930s. It was nicknamed the "doss house", and had a sign above the door reading "good lodgings down this p****age"...
- Doss (born 1990) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer, and DJ from New York City. Doss began releasing music under her stage name...