morning-room

A form of morning room — A sitting-room in a large house, typically used only in daytime.

Meanings

nounmorning-room (plural morning-rooms)

plural morning-rooms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of morning room.

    We went into the little morning-room, and Poirot closed the door.

    1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 116
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    Mr. Lawson conducting Adeline, they passed into the morning-room, from the windows of which the varied features of the Dale were seen.

    1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 187

    It was almost nine o’clock before he reached the club, where he found Lord Henry sitting alone, in the morning-room, looking very much bored.

    1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter X, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 187

    It is significant, for example, that Evelyn Waugh in a Handful of Dust treats a Syrie Maugham-type scheme as a temporary aberration wholly inimical to the spirit of the house when Tony Last allows his wife Brenda to employ the horrible Mrs Beaver to destroy the Victorian morning-room at Hetton Abbey and replace it with a horror of chrome plate and white sheepskin.

    1984, John Martin Robinson, “Mods and Baroquers”, in The Latest Country Houses, London; Sydney, N.S.W.; Toronto, Ont.: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 44
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