‖losieshuis, noun

/lʊəˈsisheɪs//lʊəˈsishœɪs/
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans, losies accomodation, lodgement + huis house.
A boarding-house providing accommodation and meals, but having no liquor licence.
1942 [see skinder verb].
a1951 H.C. Bosman Willemsdorp (1977) 55Usually..she went for supper to Ben’s Losieshuis, a boarding house run by Mavis Clarke’s mother.
1984 L. Sampson in Style July 118A double room with bath in the main hotel costs between R35 to R44 per room, sleeps two. In the Losies Huis it is as little as R23 for a double room.
A boarding-house providing accommodation and meals, but having no liquor licence.
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los, verb transitivev.lospit, nounn.
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