Toofarback for messuages

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  • two-pair-back and passages: a standard rental unit in Dublin tenements, consisting of a single room at the back of a tenement on the second floor ("two pair" refers to the two flights of stairs one must climb in order to reach the apartment) and appropriate access
    • Ulysses 308.08-09: "A nobody, two pair back and passages, at seven shillings a week"
  • D Sl farback: a house with two back rooms
  • messuage: a dwelling house plus the adjacent land and buildings
    • Ulysses 665.27: "the messuage to consist of ..."
  • messages: too far back in the past for messages to reach us today?
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