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Topic: BUILDINGS

Date: 1300-1400
Language: Old French
Origin: 'tenure', from Medieval Latin tenementum, from Latin tenere; TENOR

tenement

 noun
     
ten‧e‧ment [countable]
TBB a large building divided into apartments, especially in the poorer areas of a city
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