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Adjective
a triplex house that features a separate apartment on each floor
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India Roby, Architectural Digest, 3 Dec. 2024
When Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. bought a $15.9 million penthouse atop an old-school Park Avenue co-op in 2011, the triplex was filled with the status symbols of the Laura Ashley era: canopy beds, floral carpets, fussy wallpaper, and loads of spindly, stuffy armchairs.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 8 July 2024
John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
Reframe will build pieces of the triplex at its factory in Andover over four or five months, then assemble them at the site in Somerville over two or three months.
—Jacob Posner, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
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Noun
The multi-billionaire media tycoon, who currently owns Fox News and News Corp, sold his triplex at One Madison for roughly $23.8 million, per Crain’s New York Business.
—India Roby, Architectural Digest, 3 Dec. 2024
When Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. bought a $15.9 million penthouse atop an old-school Park Avenue co-op in 2011, the triplex was filled with the status symbols of the Laura Ashley era: canopy beds, floral carpets, fussy wallpaper, and loads of spindly, stuffy armchairs.
—Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 8 July 2024
Adjective
Residents would have to submit applications to the city’s planning department to convert their single-family homes into a duplex or triplex or to build an accessory dwelling unit on their lot.
—John Aguilar, The Denver Post, 7 Jan. 2025
Reframe will build pieces of the triplex at its factory in Andover over four or five months, then assemble them at the site in Somerville over two or three months.
—Jacob Posner, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Dec. 2024
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“Triplex.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/triplex. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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triplex
1 of 2 adjective
tri·plex
ˈtrip-ˌleks 
ˈtrī-ˌpleks
ˈtrī-ˌpleks
triplex
2 of 2 noun
: something that has three parts (as an apartment with three floors)
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