tenantable
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In the case of houses for occupation, the tenant would have to keep the house in a tenantable state of repair during the term, and deliver it up in like condition.
From The Book of Household Management by Beeton, Mrs. (Isabella Mary)
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
If any rent roll was to be derived from such a property there must be, in the first place, a large outlay in many ways before the land could be made profitable, or indeed tenantable.
From British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo by Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir
The shade was not comfortable and within doors those apartments which denied entrance to the sun had to be made tenantable by braziers.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
By 7 A.M. it became evident that the cabin must soon go to pieces, and indeed it was scarcely tenantable then.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.
