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A tenant you see at breakfast, renting the room but haunting your kitchen.
means A person who pays to live in a room within someone else's house, usually with some shared use of common areas.
from From Middle English 'loggen,' meaning to lodge or camp temporarily, borrowed from Old French 'loge' — a hut or shelter, the same root that gives us 'lodge' and 'loggia.' The word has always carried a whiff of impermanence: a lodger was never quite a member of the household, just someone sheltering under its roof for a while, rent in hand.
- legal status
- has no exclusive possession, unlike a tenant
- eviction ease
- can be removed without court order in many places
- victorian economy
- once how widows quietly avoided poverty
- shared space
- landlord keeps a key, awkwardness included free