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row house

[ roh ]

noun

  1. one of a row of houses having uniform, or nearly uniform, plans and fenestration and usually having a uniform architectural treatment, as in certain housing developments.
  2. a house having at least one side wall in common with a neighboring dwelling.


row house

/ əʊ /

noun

  1. a house that is part of a terrace Also called (in Britain and certain other countries)terraced house
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of row house1

First recorded in 1935–40
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It’s a tiny corner bar in a gritty South Philadelphia neighborhood, a hangout no bigger than the row houses that surround it.

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“We're talking about something that you can see and touch. They were living examples of what could be done with Baltimore row houses.”

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The Los Angeles debut opens with an elaborate stage set that replicates façades of tidy row houses in Camden, N.J., just across the river from Philly, where the artist was born in 1971.

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Groggy and panicked, Drinks scanned the apartment for essentials, stuffed a shopping cart with clothes for his brothers and wheeled the cart up the road to his grandmother’s overcrowded row house.

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Until this moment, no one had paid attention to William Petersen’s neat brick row house next door to the home that had been locked tight.

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