sickroom
Americannoun
noun
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a room to which a person who is ill is confined
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a room set aside, as in a school, for people who are taken ill
Etymology
Origin of sickroom
Example Sentences
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Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.
From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2022
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
From Seattle Times ● May 26, 2022
Her mother read Hans Christian Andersen stories as a vaporizer sent puffs of yellow steam into the sickroom.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2022
But when a sparrow gets in the sickroom, his mother sends him for a broom to sweep it out the window.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2020
So formidable was his reputation that Benjamin Rush could stride into a sickroom and calmly tell a suffering individual: “You have nothing but the yellow fever.”
From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy
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