sitting-room

A form of sitting room — A room in a house where people (residents or guests) pass the time in leisure.

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Meanings

nounsitting-room (plural sitting-rooms)

plural sitting-rooms

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sitting room.

    After a not-too-intrusive hunt he discovered Paige’s address book in a drawer in the sitting-room.

    2008, Robyn Sisman, chapter 27, in A Hollywood Ending, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 294
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    They crossed the strip of garden, the only thing the Curate had to be proud of,—and he was proud of it,—and the door (a glass door) of a very small sitting-room stood open to receive them.

    1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 160
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APA

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Chicago

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