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Definition of Firetrap
1. Noun. A building that would be hard to escape from if it were to catch fire.
Definition of Firetrap
1. Noun. (informal) A building with limited emergency exits in which people would be trapped in the event of a fire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Firetrap
1. a building that is likely to catch on fire [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Firetrap
Literary usage of Firetrap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fireproof Magazine edited by William Clendenin, Peter Bonnett Wight (1905)
"Two thousand dollars worth of interior marble, or decoration on the plastering,
supported by firetrap construction, looks quite as pleasing to the eye, ..."
2. Annual Report by Indiana State Board of Health (1911)
"This old structure was doubtless creditable to the old pioneers of u half century
ago. except that from manner of construction it has been always a firetrap ..."
3. Taxation of Land Values in American Cities: The Next Step in Exterminating by Benjamin Clarke Marsh (1911)
"Obviously the owner of such a building gets about the same net return upon his
property when fully occupied, whether it be fireproof or firetrap. ..."
4. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1904)
"... of iln\ house is favorable to the development of disease, while the wooden
structure makes it a veritable firetrap. FULTON COUNTY. ..."
5. Annual Report by State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.) New York City Visiting Committee (1904)
"... wooden stairway which ' makes this structure a firetrap. The Committee has
urged this improvement for several years, and we are glad that it has at last ..."
6. The Evening Post: A Century of Journalism by Allan Nevins (1922)
"During the conflict it had been housed in a dingy, rickety firetrap on the
northwest corner of Liberty and Nassau Streets, where it had its publication ..."
7. A Ten Years' War: An Account of the Battle with the Slum in New York by Jacob August Riis (1902)
"... firetrap, and would more than return the interest on the extra outlay in the
saving of insurance and repairs, and in the better building every way, ..."
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