What is "doss-houses"

Usage examples of "doss-houses".

Many of these doss-houses catered to the criminal element, including the Unfortunates who might, on a good night, have pennies for lodging.

It would have been easy and ex­citing for him to disguise himself as either an East End man or a gentle­man slummer and voyeuristically prowl the pubs and doss-houses of Whitechapel and its nearby hellholes.

Ladies of the Salvation Army regularly visited doss-houses to preach God's generosity to paupers who knew better.

She was spending her nights in Spitalfields doss-houses, the most recent one located at 35 Dorset Street, which joined Commer­cial Street and Crispin Street like a short rung on a ladder.

It would have been easy and exciting for him to disguise himself as either an East End man or a gentleman slummer and voyeuristically prowl the pubs and doss-houses of Whitechapel and its nearby hellholes.

She was spending her nights in Spitalfields doss-houses, the most recent one located at 35 Dorset Street, which joined Commercial Street and Crispin Street like a short rung on a ladder.