service flat

American  

noun

British.

1. an apartment with complete hotel services.

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service flat British  

noun

1. Also called (esp Austral): serviced flat.  a flat in which domestic services are provided by the management

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Etymology

Origin of service flat

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

He has given up his trophy-studded digs at 17A Bottle Street off Piccadilly for a service flat furnished �alas�in MGM Modern.

From Time Magazine Archive

For one week I had a service flat in London with an English butler that was such a prude he would make Ruggles of Red Gap look like a blacksmith.

From Time Magazine Archive

After considerable difficulty Dick happened upon a service flat which, although it cost more than he had calculated upon, was so convenient, and appealed to him so strongly, that he took it there and then.

From The Everlasting Arms by Hocking, Joseph