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tenement

[ten-uh-muhnt] / ˈtɛn ə mənt /


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Roy Porter’s kaleidoscopic portrait of 18th-century England captures high and low society, from stately home to poor tenement.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

“We lived a teeny tenement apartment on 29th and 2nd Avenue above the Wonderland Blues Bar,” Brooks says.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2025

Scenes switch effortlessly from Prague, with its shadowy bridge looming over the Moldau, to a Brooklyn tenement, a busy office, a tony art gallery, and the roof of the Empire State Building.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 23, 2025

Roads have been cordoned off and homes evacuated after a derelict tenement building collapsed in Glasgow.

From BBC • Jul. 12, 2025

“Back at your tenement, you wanted to talk about the night you left.”

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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