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Tenement district   /tˈɛnəmənt dˈɪstrɪkt/   Listen
Tenement district

noun
1.
A residential district occupied primarily with tenement houses.





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"Tenement district" Quotes from Famous Books



... in a thickly-populated section, not many blocks from the water front. It is in the tenement district where dozens of families are huddled together in one house. We pause in front of a rickety building and stop an urchin in the hallway, who replies to the question that we are in the right house. Then the good Doctor pulls out of his pocket the letter he received some hours ago from the grief-stricken ...
— T. De Witt Talmage - As I Knew Him • T. De Witt Talmage


Words linked to "Tenement district" :   residential district, residential area, community


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