Zinspalais
English translation: palatial rental property
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| 14:28 May 2, 2011 |
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| 4 +7 | palatial rental property |
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| 3 +1 | noble/up-market apartment building |
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| 3 | tenement palace |
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| 1 | rental palace |
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rental palace Explanation: guess based on my reference below -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 9 mins (2011-05-02 14:38:00 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- "rent-a-palace"? Also found a few ghits for "tenement palace" in association with Zinspalast -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 mins (2011-05-02 14:44:28 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The author appears to be using a term that was originally somewhat derogatory, but now is spinning it to impress potential buyers... |
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15 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1noble/up-market apartment building Explanation: "Zinshaus" appears to be the Austrian equivalent of "Mietshaus". A "Zinspalais" is obviously going to be something on a rather grander scale than your average "block of flats"! Suggestion based on a number of Google-hits, e.g. "The bourgeois palais As we have seen, the bourgeois palais, and particularly those palaces in the new Ringstraβe area, meant a chance for its builders to measure themselves with their noble fellow citizens. Several specific problems arose though, which must prevent us from concluding a direct typological connection between the new bourgeois houses and their noble counterparts. According to Mara Reissberger, the bourgeois (zins)palais, was rather a combination of two types of building which were clearly distinguished inprevious periods: the noble palais and the eighteenth-century bourgeois house." http://igitur-archive.library.uu.nl/student-theses/2007-1003... |
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9 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +7
peer agreement (net): +7palatial rental property Explanation: Thanks to Jonathan for the reference. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 hr (2011-05-02 15:54:53 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- I'd be tempted to leave out "repräsentatives, monumentales", as they're just synonyms of "palatial". |
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