boarding home—
1. a home for foster children:
- Jacqueline was placed in a boarding home and then adopted by a couple from Plymouth.
2. a private house that provides board and lodging:
- Two women take up residence at a boarding home that had previously been an all-male residence.
boarding house— = boarding home 2:
- She had some skill in the matter of keeping a boarding house and her future might indeed lie in that direction.