cold-water flat
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cold-water flat
First recorded in 1940–45
Example Sentences
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Without hesitation, she abandons her family to live in Nicky’s London cold-water flat atop a dilapidated building of bohemians and immigrants.
From Los Angeles Times
Previously, the family had lived in a cold-water flat in Brooklyn on the border between Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant at a time when the area still had many factories.
From New York Times
The family of seven lived in a cold-water flat with no heat.
From New York Times
He grew up in a cold-water flat in a poor, primarily industrial section of the city, where his father was a factory worker and a long-haul truck driver, and his mother worked as a domestic.
From Los Angeles Times
Ms. Abbott achieved early renown as a model, appearing on the cover of Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, but spurned her glamorous upbringing to move into a cold-water flat in the East Village in 1946.
From Washington Post
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