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dosshouse

dosshouse is the alternative form of doss-house.

Meaning of doss-house

Noun

doss-house (plural doss-houses)

  1. A place where homeless people can sleep for the night.
    • W. Besant
      They [street Arabs] consort together and sleep in low doss houses where they meet with all kinds of villainy.

Forms of dosshouse

pluraldosshouses

Origin of dosshouse

From doss + house.

Questions about dosshouse

What is dosshouse the alternative form of?
Dosshouse is the alternative form of doss-house.

Words near dosshouse in the dictionary

  1. dosses out
  2. Dossett
  3. Dossetts
  4. Dossey
  5. Dosseys
  6. dosshouse
  7. dosshouses
  8. dossier
  9. dossiers
  10. dossil
  11. dossils

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