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tenement - residential building divided into multiple, separate apartments or flats, typically sharing a single entrance and stairway. In common usage, it refers to crowded, low-quality rental housing in urban areas.

Bohemian-the term was used by the French to describe the Roma people (Gypsies), who they falsely believed had migrated from Bohemia (the western region of the modern-day Czech Republic)