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It is typically used to refer to the top floor of a tall building, usually a luxury apartment located there, although it can also be used more generally to refer to any sort of accommodation located at the top of an otherwise tall building. Example sentence: She just bought an expensive penthouse apartment with a rooftop terrace.
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penthouse
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An outhouse or other structure (especially one with a sloping roof) attached to the outside wall of a building.
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Built in 1890 by Robert Walker in Portland stone and listed by English Heritage as a site of special historical and architectural interest, the property boasts a penthouse suite with aerial views of the capital, dozens of rooms, spaces for entertaining, and a secure vault in the basement.
Located above fashionable Camps Bay and designed by a leading South African architect, this pad is made up of a main house with five double bedrooms and a penthouse with two doubles, and can be rented separately or as a whole.
Situated in an 1850s New York brownstone (town house) in Manhattan's East Village, this collection of four apartments and one penthouse is as close to home-from-home as you'll find in the Big Apple.
Each apartment is individually designed – one is decorated like an Indian boudoir (sleeps up to four), another has an oriental feel with Japanese "shoji" sliding doors (sleeps up to six), while the penthouse has its own roof garden (sleeps up to nine).
The 43 rooms include two swanky penthouse suites.
Just a cocktail stick's throw from Ipanema's beachfront, and reached by its own private lift, this three-bedroom penthouse mixes cool Italian marble floors, long white sofas and cowhide rugs with local artwork and 70s furniture.
It holds after-show parties (incidentally, the bars never shut), boasts its own rehearsal studios and plays host to the bands who, of course, stay in the penthouse suite.
The crowning glory, however, is the penthouse suite with its private bowling alley and a hot tub that overlooks the Strip.
But estate agency gossip, he said, suggested a Saudi prince was paying £7,000 a week for a penthouse on Park Lane.
The five-storey building is extremely spacious and has plenty of cooking facilities as well as a penthouse suite with aerial views of London, and a basement housing the former bank vaults.
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All enjoy penthouse-level margins, even as their sales glide silently upwards (see chart).People live more vertically than ever before.
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