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APARTMENT, n. two etc. apartment, a flat or house with two etc. rooms, excluding kitchen and bathroom.Gsw. 1985 Anna Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's 3:
... and never a day passed but my mother talked about the big house we were to get some day...maybe a three-apartment!Edb. 1992:
Cooncillors always have pensioners at their surgeries wanting, 'a three-apartment wi a low door.'Rnf. 1993 History on your Doorstep, The Reminiscences of the Ferguslie Elderly Forum 3:
It really was, Ferguslie was a beautiful place — every garden was cultivated. And then as the children came along, I had 7 children, so I had to get out my wee prefab, and I went to Blackstone Road, to a 5 apartment, and I thought this was even better.Rnf. 1993 History on your Doorstep, The Reminiscences of the Ferguslie Elderly Forum 4:
It was a 3 apartment tenement in Ferguslie Park Crescent. We were 16 years there.Sc. 2003 Scotsman 16 May 1:
Perhaps I should not have been too surprised given that I also found a three-apartment waterfront flat on offer at a fixed price of just £13,500 but such bargains, I suspect, are about to disappear as the island answers the wake up call for the third millennium.Sc. 2004 Sunday Herald 18 Jan 18:
Q. Your fantasy house. Where is it? Who'd design it?
Three-apartment igloo in the Bahamas.Sc. 2004 Daily Record 27 Feb 66:
In our town, all council houses are in band B (assessed at under £35,000).This includes four and five apartments. In the private schemes three apartments are in band D and therefore paying higher sewerage/water rates than the council three, four and five apartments.