audience room
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of audience room
First recorded in 1780–90
Example Sentences
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"The moment I've been dreading, as I know a lot of people have," Charles was heard saying to the prime minister as they met in the audience room at Buckingham Palace.
From Reuters • Sep. 9, 2022
We were in a formal audience room in the presidential palace in Tunis around midday on Friday, all crystal sconces and gilt-edged chairs.
From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2021
The palace released a photo of Johnson in the queen’s private audience room bowing to the monarch and shaking her right hand after she asked him to form a new government.
From Washington Post • Jul. 24, 2019
Central to this novelistic practice is learning how to leave sufficient space, so as to give your audience room to elaborate.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 12, 2017
Neither Regis nor I spoke for a minute after we left the audience room; then, almost as one, we turned to each other.
From The Planet Savers by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
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