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Tenement house   /tˈɛnəmənt haʊs/   Listen
Tenement house

noun
1.
A run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards.  Synonym: tenement.





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"Tenement house" Quotes from Famous Books



... at the top of the old tenement house little Lucy lay wasting away with a relentless disease. The doctor had said at the beginning of the winter that she could not live. Now he said that he could do no more for her except to ease the few days ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... fatigue of his arduous labors as he stepped into his carriage again. His heart gave a strange throb as he ordered the driver to go to the tenement house, the home of the old basket-maker and ...
— Jolly Sally Pendleton - The Wife Who Was Not a Wife • Laura Jean Libbey


Words linked to "Tenement house" :   tenement, apartment building, apartment house


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