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A room to which a sick person is confined
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sickroom
Word definitions for sickroom in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a room to which a sick person is confined
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ At last Anthony allowed David in to the sickroom . ▪ In the sickroom or with Diniz, Nicholas never threw doubt on the arrival of Katelina's dream fleet. ▪ Mrs Sloane was not acceptable in the sickroom because she was ugly and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A room to be used by someone who is ill.
Usage examples of sickroom.
Immediately every sickroom bottle that Floren had touched was analyzed.
He then gave the lone guard orders to let no noble of the realm or stranger come near the two royals, then left the impromptu sickroom.
I felt vaguely ashamed, as befits one who has thrown a tantrum in a sickroom.
The estate was well run, and there was nothing for him to do there, except keep Olivia company whenever she came out of the sickroom.
Lady Lysa would not permit the boy to enter the sickroom, for fear that he too might be taken ill.
The study at Heartsease had been converted into a temporary sickroom, and Darwin, Anna Thaxton and Pole himself were all sitting in armchairs by the fire, swaddled in blankets.
The room which Cadmus Geary had used as his sanctum had been as comprehensively trashed as the sickroom and the lobby, but two items had been left untouched by the assault: the landscape painting on the wall and a large leather armchair.
The old wallpaper was down in Millie's room and the old sickroom and Carlotta's room, and the plasterers had almost completed the proper preparation of the walls for fresh paint.
Since his arrival at Winding Circle, he had worked in sickrooms in three epidemics and a border war, but he'd always been under the guidance of Rosethorn and experienced healers.
People gathered together to die in sickrooms, faces covered in sweat, bodies tormented by incurable swellings.
This queer boy, who was sometimes so much older than his years, not only trusted him, but was depending on him too, confident that he, who had all his life evaded irksome responsibilities, had seldom exerted himself on another’s behalf, and knew nothing about sickrooms, was competent to take charge of Felix, himself, the doctor, and even the hostile Miss Judbrook.
Like most Detinans (and all the more because he was a healer's son), Bell had spent time in sickrooms that held people who were going to die.