Definition of "row house" [row house]

• One of a series of houses, often of similar or identical design, situated side by side and joined by common walls. (noun)

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• "It was in the middle of the block on Fifty-third off Blackstone, what was called a row house from an earlier century, strange to the eyes of a man who thought of houses as being miles apart from each other."
• "At the very moment I am pulling the curtains from in front of our bedroom window, the twister is ripping the face from a row house on Sixty-second Street at Sixth Avenue."
• "She had a base in and around Baltimore, where she lived in a nine-foot-wide row house in the old ethnic neighborhood of Fells Point; the Baltimore area accounted for the single largest bloc of voters in the primary."