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Definition of Duplex apartment
1. Noun. An apartment having rooms on two floors that are connected by a staircase.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Duplex Apartment
Literary usage of Duplex apartment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Tiny Life: Crime and Passion in a Virtual World by Julian Dibbell (1998)
"... Living/Dining Room You are at the ground-floor level of an overpriced and
undersized East Village duplex apartment. A cheap Scandinavian loveseat hugs ..."
2. The Art of Interior Decoration by Grace Wood, Emily Burbank (1919)
"Italian Furniture 179 XX Combination of Studio and Living-room in New York Duplex
Apartment . . .187 XXI Part of a Victorian Parlour in One of the Few ..."
3. The Practical Book of Architecture by Charles Matlack Price (1916)
"A promising departure was marked by the "duplex" apartment, in which a sense of
spaciousness was effected by devising for each apartment a large two-story ..."
4. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"Plans have also been prepared for a fourteen-story duplex apartment house on a
plot 100 x 100, at Park avenue and Eightieth street. ..."
5. Architecture and Building (1912)
"Society has TYPICAL STORY PLAN SHOWING AN APARTMENT ON A SINGLE FLOOR AND THE
SECOND STORY OF A duplex apartment. McKim, Mead & White, Architects. ..."
6. Art and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
""I may say, sir, that when I purchased this duplex apartment I did not anticipate
this—er—happy event. We shall now require some additional rooms. ..."
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