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The shrine also offers free housing and food for out-of-town patients receiving treatment at the next-door government hospital, acting as a traveler’s rest house just as the shrine did when it was first established.
—Taylor Luck, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 June 2024
Paramedics arrived a little after 5:30 p.m. in the vicinity of the Tip Off rest house on the South Kaibab Trail to find the Daly City resident unresponsive, NPS officials announced.
—Sunset Magazine, 30 June 2020
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah disputed the Israeli version in a speech later Sunday, saying the Israeli strikes hit a Hezbollah rest house and killed two of the group’s members.
—Jon Gambrell, Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
Rocks also crashed through the roof of a rest house where about 100 skiers and snowboarders were sheltering, the Kyodo News agency reported.
—Anna Fifield, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1807, in the meaning defined above
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“Rest house.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rest%20house. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
rest house
noun
: a building used for shelter by travelers
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