floor-through
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of floor-through
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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He was right, and not just because the rent is too damn high — the lease for Robbins’s $165-a-month floor-through in the West Village, displayed in one case here, is only one benefit to envy.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
Three oval openings perforate one of the blocks, while another has five pairs of floor-through windows that turn it into a skyscraper writ small.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 4, 2018
He used to live in a floor-through apartment in the heart of historic Madrid, steps away from the Royal Theater, where the streets are as narrow as trenches.
From New York Times ● Feb. 20, 2018
By the time my parents bundled their baby into a taxi for a ride across the Brooklyn Bridge to a second-story floor-through in Carroll Gardens, I was Joel Harold Rosen.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016
It was a floor-through - the whole floor of a building - on Twelfth Street just off Third Avenue for a mere $300 a month.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2014
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