Adjoined
[ə'dʒɒɪn]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Adjoin
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Examples
- A breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room, I slipped in there. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I had unquestionably observed the man leaving a house which closely adjoined Mrs. Catherick's residence. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Joe's forge adjoined our house, which was a wooden house, as many of the dwellings in our country were,--most of them, at that time. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- One day, Thérèse, whose bed-chamber adjoined that of William Lamb, overheard the following conversation between them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She always sat upstairs: her drawing-room adjoined her bed-room. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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