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railroad flat
railroad flatn. An apartment in which the rooms are connected in a line. Also called railroad apartment.rail′road flat`
n. an apartment whose series of narrow rooms forms a more or less straight line. Also called rail′road apart`ment. Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | railroad flat - an apartment whose rooms are all in a line with doors between themapartment, flat - a suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house |
railroad flat
railroad flatA narrow apartment whose rooms are in a straight line; one must pass through each room to get to the next one because there is no internal corridor. Only the front and rear rooms have windows; air shafts along one or both sides of the apartment provide ventilation and a little light in the interior rooms. Primarily constructed on the east coast of America in the 1880s; also called a dumbbell tenement.railroad flat
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