Room and board
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Room and board describes an accommodation which, in exchange for money, labour or other recompense, a person is provided with a place to live in addition to meals. It commonly occurs as a fee at higher educational institutions, such as colleges and universities; it also occurs in hotel-style accommodation for short stays.
Definition
[edit]- Room refers to a bedroom provided, sometimes private and occasionally with an en suite bathroom.
- Board refers to food being provided; the use of this term may derive from the Old English bord, meaning table.[1]
Two commonly encountered boards are:
- Half board, where the host provides only breakfast and dinner meals.
- Full board, where the host provides three daily meals.
Another option is:
- Bed and breakfast, literally, a place to sleep and where breakfast is provided.
See also
[edit]- Bistro, a type of informal French restaurant
- Boarding house, a lodging establishment
- Boarding school
- Parlour boarder, an archaic term for a category of pupil at boarding school
- Sideboard, an article of furniture from which food is served in a dining room
References
[edit]- ^ Savelli, Mary (2011). Old English Phrases. p. 48. ISBN 9781463780746.
- Room and Board - phrase meaning and origin
- I need to know where the phrase 'room and board' originated and w...
- Life in the 1500s
External links
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The dictionary definition of room and board at Wiktionary
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