sitting room

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noun

a small living room, often one that forms part of a suite in a hotel, private house, etc.

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Origin of sitting room

First recorded in 1765–75

Words nearby sitting room

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How to use sitting room in a sentence

The passage in which they gathered each night, at the top of a dark staircase in a drafty old house, was their de facto sitting room.
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He said he saw Murray give Jackson injections of clear liquid in the library, sitting room, and the second-floor bedroom.
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The elegant hotel sitting room swelled with the serious mood of Javier Bardem.
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When he was gone, Isaacson returned to his sitting-room upstairs and lit a nargeeleh pipe.
Bella Donna|Robert Hichens

When he entered his sitting-room M. de Kerguel rose and profoundly saluted him.
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Then he started, and suffered five suffocating minutes in the public sitting-room of the Beau Soleil.
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She had closed the street door and was on the first step of the stairs when her mother called to her from the sitting-room.
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I had no private sitting-room, and he positively refused to sit in the salon a second time.
Ancestors|Gertrude Atherton

British Dictionary definitions for sitting room

sitting room

noun

a room in a private house or flat used for relaxation and entertainment of guests

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