row house
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Noun edit
row house (plural row houses)
- (chiefly US) A variety of residential building where the individual houses lining a street share adjacent walls in common and have a continuous stretch of roof
- 1990 August 18, Liz Galst, “The Boston Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Continues”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 6, page 9:
- When we meet Jess in the early '50s she's seven, living in a row house crammed against other row houses in a working-class Lancaster, all packed in against the steep hills that populate the English Northwest.
- The walls in Eduardo's row house were so thin he could hear the neighbors two houses down.
Translations edit
rowhouse — see rowhouse
See also edit
- terraced house (Australia, UK)
- terrace