盲めくら長なが屋や

noun

tenement house with no windows

A historical term for a cheap, dark tenement lacking windows, literally 'blind tenement'. The word contains a discriminatory term and is now rarely used; it appears mainly in historical or literary contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの貧まずしい人ひと々びとは、盲めくら長なが屋やと呼よばれる窓まどのない長なが屋やに住すんでいた。

  Poor people in the Edo period lived in tenements called mekura-nagaya, which had no windows.