conversation pit
Americannoun
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Inside, a sunken conversation pit is anchored by a floor-to-ceiling fireplace under whitewashed beams.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2023
As it swept through the ’60s, the conversation pit became a delineated social coliseum, designed for deep conversation and deliberate social intimacy, the interior design equivalent of the cul-de-sac.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022
The circular sofa is a place to gather, a spiritual descendent of that uniquely suburban, utopian symbol of togetherness: the conversation pit.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 27, 2022
“So the conversation pit is this fantasy of ‘what would it be like if we were together again and having a good time?’”
From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2022
It was one of several arranged in a sunken conversation pit.
From Terminal Compromise: computer terrorism: when privacy and freedom are the victims: a novel by Schwartau, Winn
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