housing estate

Definitions

A group of often architecturally similar buildings constructed at the same time, primarily for residential accommodation.

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Examples

“She suggested he was destroying all Sarkozy had achieved in proving that a traditional, Catholic, rightwing area could vote⟳ for an ethnic-minority candidate such as her, from a poor housing estate in the provinces, the Muslim child of illiterate north African parents. She vowed to "resist⟳" Fillon.”

“Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.”

“That project would mean⟳ reinstating 5½ miles of decommissioned line between Tavistock, where a new single-platform railway station would be built alongside the 750-home housing estate currently under construction, and Bere Alston.”

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