boudoir

plural boudoirs

1. A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.

   I found her in her boudoir getting outside a dish of tea and a crumpet.

   1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC

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   The Duchesse's boudoir was fitted up in a style of luxury utterly different from anything before familiar to the Carraras.

   1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 118

   The church like a huge boudoir spread around her; the arches bent down to gather in the shade the confession of her love; the windows shone resplendent to illumine her face, and the censers would burn that she might appear like an angel amid the fumes of the sweet-smelling odours.

   1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter I, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part III, page 264

   Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.

   1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 154

2. USslanggovernmentAn army tent.