Basemented

She is a widow, and she owns—mortgaged, of course—one of those old-fashioned, two-and-a-half-story, red-brick basemented houses⸺

Moscow had many basemented buildings, and in the lowest storey safe and efficient shelters were established (see illus., p. 1850).

The Betlers lived in a Bayswater square. A five-storeyed and basemented house of incredible inconvenience.

A large, apparently semi-basemented, room (Room 4) was added to the rear of Room 2 in Building B.

Stacks of photos lined desks: forbidden images of women, basemented somewhere since the Revival.

I'm troubled and terrified by the ease with which I accepted my life in the basement, my reality as a basemented writer.