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Tenement district   /tˈɛnəmənt dˈɪstrɪkt/   Listen
Tenement district

noun
1.
A residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses.






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"Tenement district" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother was a good housekeeper, not afraid of work, has no idea of the attitude of half the housewives of his district. Having been made as a boy "to get the dustpan and brush and sweep up his whittlings," he does not realize that these houses in the tenement district have no dustpans, and that no one would bend his back to sweep up litter if there were. It is all swept into the alley or the street. Cheap, long-handled dustpans would be valuable sanitary implements. As ...
— Euthenics, the science of controllable environment • Ellen H. Richards



Words linked to "Tenement district" :   residential district, community, residential area



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