Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A building divided into separate suites of rooms, intended for residence, but commonly without facilities for cooking, and in this respect different from a flat, though the two words are often used interchangeably (see
flat ): also distinguished fromtenement-house (which see).
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Examples
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Inspiration not just in the superheroics, but in what seemed mundane to the New Yorkers who had created those comics, such as pizzerias and apartment-house water tanks.
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Inspiration not just in the superheroics, but in what seemed mundane to the New Yorkers who had created those comics, such as pizzerias and apartment-house water tanks.
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He was a suspect in an apartment-house fire that killed a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He was a suspect in an apartment-house fire that killed a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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When he was nineteen, Vidor Perkins had been a suspect in an apartment-house arson that killed three people, one of them a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He was a suspect in an apartment-house fire that killed a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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When he was nineteen, Vidor Perkins had been a suspect in an apartment-house arson that killed three people, one of them a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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When he was nineteen, Vidor Perkins had been a suspect in an apartment-house arson that killed three people, one of them a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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He was a suspect in an apartment-house fire that killed a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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When he was nineteen, Vidor Perkins had been a suspect in an apartment-house arson that killed three people, one of them a child.
The Glass Rainbow James Lee Burke 2010
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