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tenement house

noun as in housing project

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In the fireworks’ diminishing glow, the tenement houses across the street seemed precarious, as though they would collapse into ruin and rubble at any moment.

In another clip, a sign saying “Quarantined” was stuck on the door of what looked like a tenement house where Reverend Kim said people with possible symptoms were kept.

A wealthy young man causes a stir within his family when he decides to purchase a tenement house in the ghetto.

Stone also built tenement houses in Washington’s Swampoodle neighborhood, north of today’s Union Station.

She worked as a janitress and kept three tenement houses clean.

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

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