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tenement

noun as in run-down and overcrowded apartment house

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Born Josephine Occhiuto in Brooklyn, she grew up in a walk-up tenement building.

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The Progressive Era was an age of civic experimentation at the level of the tenement, neighborhood, city, and state.

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She got involved with the early labor movement and with tenement reform.

You've seen gingerbread houses...but have you ever made your own gingerbread tenement?

The road led to an old fashioned, high gabled farm-house at the foot of the hill; the only tenement visible from that lonely spot.

Sam was lowered first to the roof of the tenement which we have said was already on fire, and stood ready to receive Liz.

Looking back through the rear window, he saw Carlson turn up a narrow walk between two tenement buildings.

Governor Street was just as dirty and squalid as any other tenement-house street in the poorer section of a middle-class city.

He has a wife and seven children living down on Governor Street, in a miserable tenement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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