| 单词 | railroad flat |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrailroad flat d. U.S. regional (chiefly New York). A style of flat consisting of a series of rooms arranged in a line, esp. with the rooms opening directly into one another without a hallway. Chiefly attributive, esp. in railroad apartment, railroad flat. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment > type of studio flat1882 studio apartment1884 mansard1886 penthouse1892 single end1897 walk-up1907 railroad flat1908 simplex1912 service flat1913 studio1918 kitchenette1920 duplex1922 garden flat1922 flatlet1925 show flat1929 quadruplex1939 council flat1941 garden apartment1942 walk-back1945 multilevel1959 tower apartment1961 condominium1962 triplex1962 condo1984 1908 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 1 Mar. (headline) Tenement house law—what it means to New Yorkers who formerly lived in the..ill ventilated fire traps of ‘dumbbell’ and ‘railroad’ type. 1909 N.Y. Times 4 Apr. 12/5 The boys..come from the crowded ‘flat house’ districts, living in a few tiny rooms or a ‘railroad’ flat. 1914 Fort Wayne (Indiana) News 29 Aug. 12/5 They wanted a railroad apartment with a hall that ran the entire length of the building. 1943 B. Smith Tree grows in Brooklyn xv. 113 Four rooms made up the new flat. They led one into the other and were called railroad rooms. 1956 B. Malamud in New Yorker 22 Sept. 149/1 A five-room railroad flat above a butcher store. 1998 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 26 July 8 $850 for a one-bedroom railroad on Sackett St. 2003 N.Y. Times 29 June 14 It was a..railroad apartment. I could lie on my bed and see my bathroom four rooms away. < as lemmas |
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