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plural tenements
A building that is rented to multiple tenants, especially a low-rent, run-down one. quotations examples
He turned into Cumberland street and, going on some paces, halted in the lee of the station wall. No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements.
1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
(law) Any form of property that is held by one person from another, rather than being owned. examples
(figurative) Dwelling; abode; habitation. quotations examples
Who has informed us that a rational soul can inhabit no tenement, unless it has just such a sort of frontispiece?
1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […]
Where she came from no man could tell. There were some said she was no woman, but a ghost haunting some mortal tenement.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide