: an apartment having a series of narrow rooms arranged in line
Examples of railroad flat in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the WebShelton moved with her five kids to a railroad flat on Blake Street in Berkeley.—Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Mar. 2022 Shortly after Howe was born, in 1940, her family moved from Buffalo to a railroad flat near Harvard Square, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.—Dan Chiasson, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2019
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