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  • adjective Resembling or characteristic of a tenement.

Etymologies

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tenement +‎ -like

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Examples

  • The driver deposited me at the rear of the tenementlike Intourist Hotel.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • The driver deposited me at the rear of the tenementlike Intourist Hotel.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • The driver deposited me at the rear of the tenementlike Intourist Hotel.

    Where Europe Vanishes 2000

  • West of Central Avenue and north of 103rd Street, Bone Street was broken and desolate to look at by day, with its two-story tenementlike apartment buildings and its mangy hotels.

    White Butterfly Walter Mosley 1992

  • Museum of Chinese in America gets a new, larger home in New York Museum of Chinese in America gets a new homeNEW YORK - In cramped tenementlike quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • Museum of Chinese in America gets a new, larger home in New York Museum of Chinese in America gets a new homeNEW YORK - In cramped tenementlike quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

  • September 1st, 2009 Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys performing at the Hammerstein Ballroom. more images Museum of Chinese in America gets a new, larger home in New York Museum of Chinese in America gets a new homeNEW YORK - In cramped tenementlike quarters in Chinatown, staff at the Museum of Chinese in America had to be careful not to step on any schoolchildren as they taught a class about the role Chinese immigrants played in building the Transcontinental Railroad.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2009

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