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 ● Jan. 31, 2022
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 ● Jan. 14, 2022
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 ● Oct. 2, 2019
By 1948, three years after Roosevelt’s death, Adams and her 11 children and second husband were living in a cold-water flat in Harlem, New York City.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 29, 2016
Ellen had been well-heeled—suspiciously so for a girl who lived in a cold-water flat like that; he'd peeled fifteen tens from her wallet, and there'd been more, not to mention the twenties.
From Pursuit by Del Rey, Lester
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