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
We first entered a large enclosure, then a goodly-sized audience room, and next the temple proper.
From Travels in the Far East by Peck, Ellen Mary Hayes
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