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tenement house

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Noun1.tenement house - a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standardstenement house - a run-down apartment house barely meeting minimal standards
apartment building, apartment house - a building that is divided into apartments


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Under the gateway of the extremely ugly tenement house, which hides the Pavilion and the garden from the street, the wife of the porter was waiting with her arms akimbo.
The view of ships lying moored in some of the older docks of London has always suggested to my mind the image of a flock of swans kept in the flooded backyard of grim tenement houses.
It is a troublesome rent to collect, but on the other hand there is no expenditure for repairs or sanitation, which are not considered necessary in tenement houses.
 
 
 
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