cold-water flat

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   an apartment without modern conveniences

   Broaderapartment

Questions about cold-water flat

What does cold-water flat mean?

cold-water flat means "an apartment without modern conveniences".

Is cold-water flat a common word?

cold-water flat is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.