tenantable
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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 Ira Mayhew
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
When the tenant had done these things, had made the land tenantable, the rent was raised.
From The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan
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 David Christie Murray
Vast sums of money must be expended before it can be made tenantable.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 5, November, 1863 by Various
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