sitting room

See also: sitting-room

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sitting room (plural sitting rooms)

  1. (Britain) A living-room; a room in a house where people pass the time in leisure.
    • 1905, Baroness Emmuska Orczy, chapter 1, in The Fate of the Artemis‎:
      “[…] Captain Markam had been found lying half-insensible, gagged and bound, on the floor of the sitting-room, his hands and feet tightly pinioned, and a woollen comforter wound closely round his mouth and neck ; whilst Mrs. Markham's jewel-case, containing valuable jewellery and the secret plans of Port Arthur, had disappeared. […]”

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living room — see living room
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