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Tenement

Definition

(historical/sociological) A multi-occupancy residential building, typically of several storeys, originally built to house large numbers of working-class families in industrial cities, often associated with overcrowding and poor sanitation in the 19th and early 20th centuries; now also used in legal contexts to denote any property held by one person under a specific type of tenure.

Example Sentences

1The Lower East Side tenement museum in New York preserves the cramped apartments where immigrant families lived at the turn of the century.
2Is the romanticisation of the Victorian tenement in popular culture a disservice to those who endured its squalor?
3The reformer Jacob Riis did not merely document tenement life; his photographs catalysed the first significant housing legislation in the United States.
4Examine the legal definition of a tenement in Scots property law, which differs markedly from its colloquial usage.
5There is a vast body of sociological literature analysing the tenement as both a crucible of community solidarity and a vector of disease.

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