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tenement house

noun

Definition of tenement house

: apartment building especially : one meeting minimum standards of sanitation, safety, and comfort and usually located in a city

Examples of tenement house in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

 Taken from tenement houses, or row houses, the remnants are from archaeological digs spanning 11 years as researchers and historians piece them together to create a picture of the lives of these workers. — Caroline Blackmon, Detroit Free Press, "Digging for mid-1800s trash uncovers lives of Corktown residents," 1 July 2018

First Known Use of tenement house

1858, in the meaning defined above

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