dosshouses

The people he met in dosshouses, he reported, were often abject, envious jackals.

The Complete Works of George Orwell (reviews) 1999

This seems like an allegory for Orwell's writing life: a frail man in a frail boat, nonetheless determined to enter the most notorious whirlpools of the world, whether they be the dosshouses of London's east end, or the internecine street fighting of Barcelona in 1937.

Jura Duty 2007

Prisons, dosshouses, psychiatric hospitals and doorways continue to be populated by ex-servicemen - many of whom saw active service.

The Guardian World News 2010

-- nothing but rotten pay whilst we work, and when we're out of work, dosshouses or kerbstones.

The Sorcery Club Elliott O'Donnell 1918

The stratum of society from which Górky took the heroes of his first short stories -- and in short stories he appears at his best -- is that of the tramps of Southern Russia: men who have broken with regular society, who never accept the yoke of permanent work, laboring only as long as they want to, as "casuals" in the seaports on the Black Sea; who sleep in dosshouses or in ravines on the outskirts of the cities, and tramp in the summer from Odessa to the Crimea, and from the Crimea to the prairies of Northern Caucasia, where they are always welcome at harvest time.

Maxím Górky 1904