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Flat sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1901, rev. 2022. Flat sb.2 [Alteration of FLET, influenced by FLAT a. and sb.3 The word was until recently peculiar to Scotland, where the original form survived into the present century.]

1   1.  A floor or story in a house.

2 1801.  A. Ranken, Hist. France, I. 442. In cities, the walls of the houses were generally a foot and a half thick, and the houses consisted of several flats, or stories.

3 1827.  Ann. Reg., 143/1. The chimney of a tenement consisting of three flats, and inhabited by several families, suddenly fell with a tremendous crash, some of the stones passing through the roof and the several floors.

4 1861.  Morning Post, 27 Nov. The numerous family … in the fourth flat.

5 1887.  Times, 27 Aug., 11/3. A fire broke out in a flat of the mill.

6   2.  A suite of rooms on one floor, forming a complete residence. First, second, etc. flat: a suite on the first, second, etc. floor.

7 1824.  Scott, Redgauntlet, v. What was it to him if we chose to imitate some of the conveniences or luxuries of an English dwelling-house, instead of living piled up above each other in flats?

8 1845.  Mrs. Johnstone, Edin. Tales, I. 267/2. That comfortable, airy, roomy, first-flat, consisting of dining-room, parlour, three bed-rooms, cellar in the area, and right to the common green.

9 1887.  Miss Braddon, Like & Unlike, II. iv. The rents of these flats seem to be extortionate.

10   3.  attrib. and Comb., as flat-house, -law, flat-builder, -dweller, -holder.

11 1889.  Pall Mall G., 21 May, 6/3. The cunning way in which the flats are planned deserves study by all *flat-builders.

12 1894.  Daily News, 4 Jan., 4/7. *Flat-dwellers and Hygiene.

13 1894.  Westm. Gaz., 10 Feb., 2/2. The defencelessness of the *flat-holder has been found out.

14 1884.  Times (weekly ed.), 12 Sept., 14/1. Enormous *‘flat’ houses.

15 1894.  Westm. Gaz., 10 Feb., 2/2. She will settle a question of *flat-law.

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