floor-through
Americanadjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of floor-through
First recorded in 1965–70
Example Sentences
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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
Another is Sarah Guthrie Melvin, 73, who moved with her parents into a rental floor-through at 82 Macdougal in 1943, when she was a newborn.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016
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
She also did the renovation on his garden-level floor-through apartment on Gramercy Park West, now on the market for $2.2 million.
From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2014
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