DCHP-3

boarding house agent

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person soliciting patronage for a boarding house.

Quotations

1883
As he leaps with a light heart and a heavy pocket from the raft on to the shore he is at once beset with a host of hell-runners in the shape of calash drivers, boarding-house agents, brothel sirens, and crimps and sharpers of the blackest stamp.