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tong lau

tong lau noun: a tenement building, found in Southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

Noun

tong lau (plural tong laus)

  1. A tenement building, found in Southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
    • Mr. Clifford is one of a handful of small-scale developers who renovate apartments in the old tong lau-style tenements and walk-up residential buildings built in Hong Kong from the 1940s through the 1970s.2010 May 27, Alex Frew McMillan, “Breathing Life, and Cash, Into Hong Kong's Old Walk-Ups”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2010, Great Homes & Destinations

Forms of tong lau

pluraltong laus

Origin of tong lau

From Cantonese 唐樓 /唐楼 (tong4 lau4-2).

Questions about tong lau

What does tong lau mean?
Tong lau means a tenement building, found in Southern China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
What part of speech is tong lau?
Tong lau is a noun.
What is the plural of tong lau?
The plural of tong lau is tong laus.

Words near tong lau in the dictionary

  1. Tonfanau
  2. tonfas
  3. tong
  4. tong doc
  5. tong fai
  6. tong lau
  7. tong laus
  8. tong sui
  9. tong war
  10. tong wars
  11. Tong'an

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