Sleeping accommodation without board. Gentlemen who take their meals at clubs live in dry lodgings.
“Dry Lodginge of seven weeks, £0 4s. 1d.”—Sir W. Scott: Old Mortality (Intr. Rob. Patterson deb. to Margaret Chrystale).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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