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boudoir
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boudoir \Bou*doir"\, n. [F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.]
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 bedroom; a lady's (or sometimes a
gentleman's) private room.
--Cowper.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1777, "room where a lady may retire to be alone," from French boudoir (18c.), literally "pouting room," from bouder "to pout, sulk," which, like pout, probably ultimately is imitative of puffing.
Wiktionary
n. A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.
WordNet
n. a lady's bedroom or private sitting room
Wikipedia
A boudoir (; ) is a woman's private sitting room or salon in a furnished accommodation usually between the dining room and the bedroom, but can also refer to a woman's private bedroom. The term derives from the French verb bouder to sulk, or boudeur sulk or sulking, and originally was a room for sulking in, to put away or withdraw to.
The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) in his literary works helped develop a reputation in this small room dedicated to the privacy of female talks. Since the success of his book Philosophy in the Bedroom, the small sitting room or salon has a sulphurous and scandalous reputation combined with those of all exchanges and frolics.
Usage examples of "boudoir".
Her hand clenched itself on the banisters, then she seemed to nerve herself for some encounter, and went rapidly past me down the stairs across the hall to the boudoir, the door of which she shut behind her.
As I ran out to the tennis court a few moments later, I had to pass the open boudoir window, and was unable to help overhearing the following scrap of dialogue.
I took him down to the boudoir which he had expressed a wish to see, and went myself in search of Dorcas.
Dorcas was standing in the boudoir, her hands folded in front of her, and her grey hair rose in stiff waves under her white cap.
In the general confusion, the boudoir had not been swept that morning, and near the desk were several traces of brown mould and earth.
The mould in the beds was exactly similar to that on the floor of the boudoir, and also I learnt from you that they had been planted yesterday afternoon.
I was now sure that one, or possibly both of the gardenersfor there were two sets of footprints in the bedhad entered the boudoir, for if Mrs.
With the evidence of Annie, as to the candle grease on the floor, and as to seeing the prisoner take the coffee into the boudoir, the proceedings were adjourned until the following day.
She left them in her boudoir busy with these when she returned to the parlor.
Zoe went to her boudoir, gave vent to her anger in a hearty fit of crying, then set to work at the lessons with a sincere desire to please the husband she really loved with all her heart.
Such were his thoughts as he went through the duties of the toilet, while Zoe sat at the window of her boudoir gazing out over the smoothly shaven lawn with its stately trees, lovely in their fresh spring attire, to the green fields and woods beyond, yet scarcely taking in the beauty of the landscape, so full of tears were her eyes, so full her heart of anger, grief, and pain.
Elsie, coming up a little later, found her in her boudoir crying very bitterly.
On their return, he bade her lie down on the sofa in her boudoir and rest, averring that she looked languid and unlike herself.
They found her in her boudoir, seated in an easy-chair, beside a window overlooking the avenue, and with her baby on her lap.
I was now sure that one, or possibly both of the gardeners--for there were two sets of footprints in the bed--had entered the boudoir, for if Mrs.