Definition of "tenement-house" [tenement-house]

• A house or block of buildings divided into dwellings occupied by separate families; technically, in the State of New York, any house occupied by more than three families. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The novice can catch the thrill of teaching folk-dancing to the tenement-house child or distributing bread tickets to the poor; but an offer to pay the expenses of a board of health 'cleanup campaign' requires imagination of a different order."
• "A ponderous federal report was issued in 1894; in 1900, Laurence Veiller, one of the tireless reformers of the late 19th century, held a tenement-house exhibition."
• "The law, said the court, in self-righteous indignation, “interferes with the profitable and free use of his property by the owner or lessee of a tenement-house who is a cigarmaker.”"