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railroad flat
noun
an apartment consisting of connected long, narrow rooms US, 1956- Red’s apartment was the type known as a “railroad flat.” It had no hallway. There was a succession of rooms, one telescoped into the next. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 105, 1961
- Alan lived in a railroad flat, in one large room of it, with paintings on all the walls. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 417, 1961
- We were freezing our asses off in a fourth-floor railroad flat on Ninety-second Street with a toilet in the hall used to freeze up overnight. — Vincent Patrick, The Pope of Greenwich Village, p. 166, 1979
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