DCHP-1 Online
dollar house Obs. 
an inn or rest house at which any meal costs a dollar.
- 1965 . . . always managed to get a meal of some kind at one of the resthouses [in the Cariboo, c1865]. It generally consisted of beans and fat bacon, with bread or biscuit, and very thick coffee. Every house was what was called "a dollar house," and whatever the meal consisted of, or whether or not it was good or bad, it was always a dollar.
- 1965 . . . always managed to get a meal of some kind at one of the resthouses [in the Cariboo, c1865]. It generally consisted of beans and fat bacon, with bread or biscuit, and very thick coffee. Every house was what was called "a dollar house," and whatever the meal consisted of, or whether or not it was good or bad, it was always a dollar.