tenemented

The tenemented buildings descended by degrees to poky lanes and humble whitewashed cottages.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

The tenemented buildings descended by degrees to poky lanes and humble whitewashed cottages.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

It is evident, if the hypnotists are right, that the human body is more like a tenement house than a single cell, and that the inmates love each other no more than the ordinary occupants of tenemented property.

Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead

Algren’s high-flown tribute–Chicago: City on the Make, published in 1951–evoked a darker city, blaring with the noise of taxi-horns, trumpets and gunshots, resounding with the thud of heavy feet trudging through it, unobserved, out to the thirty sprawling miles of industrialised heartland, from the tenemented warrens of the South Side.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009