Boudoir
['buːdwɑː] or ['budwɑr]
Definition
(n.) A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Fr.] Cabinet, private room, retired apartment.
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Definition
n. a lady's private room.
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Examples
- Any private hours in her day were usually spent in her blue-green boudoir, and she had come to be very fond of its pallid quaintness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And the boudoir-oratoire--you should make that room your study; it is so quiet and solemn. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He had taken a Chinese drawing of geese from the boudoir, and was copying it, with much skill and vividness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The Superintendent decided to begin by examining the boudoir, and, that done, to examine the servants next. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Paul, speaking low, and still holding my hand, did you see a picture in the boudoir of the old house? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I have a nice little boudoir and bedroom, at the end of a long passage on the first floor. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- That is hers, those two wagtails in Hermione's boudoir--you've seen them--they are carved in wood and painted. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Dorothea, busy in her boudoir, felt a glow of pleasure at the sight of her sister so soon after the revelation of her intended marriage. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Two hours later, Dorothea was seated in an inner room or boudoir of a handsome apartment in the Via Sistina. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He went into her boudoir, a remote and very cushiony place. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- While this had been passing, Eva had flown like a bird, through the porch and parlor, to a little boudoir opening likewise on the verandah. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She went up to her boudoir. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Just as she turned, a peal of thunder broke, and a flash of lightning blazed broad over salon and boudoir. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- It was below the boudoir, and had also a bow-window looking out on the avenue. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Superintendent's next proceeding took him back to the boudoir again, with my daughter and me at his heels. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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