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tenement house definition

☆ tenement house

a building divided into tenements, or apartments, now specif. one in the slums that is run-down, overcrowded, etc.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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