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tenement house

noun as in housing project

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

The saloon became very early in the development of the tenement-house sections the only social center.

The life imposed on the tenement-house mother does not make time an element in adjustment of her day, still less of her week.

All his life of twenty-two years he had lived under tenement-house conditions.

A relation that grew out of lack of privacy, the intimacy forced by tenement-house conditions.

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

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