tenantable

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Brunow lived off Regent Street, in a garret handsomely furnished and tenantable, but stuffy and confined to my notions, used as I had been to the open-air life of a soldier on active service.

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

It was a fantastic chateau, much dilapidated, and indeed scarcely tenantable through age and neglect.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Poe, Edgar Allan

In 1837, not one third of the public school-houses in Massachusetts would have been considered tenantable by any decent family out of the poor-house or in it.

From Popular Education For the use of Parents and Teachers, and for Young Persons of Both Sexes by Mayhew, Ira

At the close of the month it is stated on reliable authority, that the number of buildings actually tenantable was greater than before the conflagration.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

Three or four times in twenty years the outgoing tenant will make good his dilapidations, and the house-agent will put the premises into tenantable repair—as these things are settled for us by lawyers and surveyors.

From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various