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单词 chawl
释义

chawl

/tʃɔːl /
(also chal)
noun
(In South Asia) a large building divided into many separate tenements, offering cheap, basic accommodation to labourers.And we, who reside in the overcrowded chawls, we simply live....
  • They lived together in a room apartment in a chawl owned by the local touts.
  • When the textile mills were set up in Bombay the employers were required to provide housing in the form of chawls for their workers.

Origin

From Marathi cāḷ, denoting a long narrow building.

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