What is "apartments"

Usage examples of "apartments".

My apartments consisted of three fine rooms, but they were at the back of the house, and all the noise I could have made would not have been heard.

The queen finished her dinner without uttering a single word, and retired to her apartments the same way as she had come.

When I left them I went off to my apartments, then to the opera, where I lost two hundred sequins, and finally supped with the countess, who had become quite amiable.

Madame Schmit, whom the king for good reasons of his own had accommodated with apartments in the palace, asked me one evening to sup with her, telling me that the king would be of the party.

I arrived at Paris on February 10th, and took sumptuous apartments near the Rue Montorgueil.

The ground floor consists of innumerable small rooms, a few large and lofty apartments, and an immense hall.

He controls a lot of property-office and industrial buildings, apartments, stores, that kind of stuff.

Several of the foreign embassies in town maintained blocks of apartments there, so transients and strange new faces were a way of life.

I was scolded if a week elapsed without my calling upon them, and when I went to the apartments reserved for the young ladies, they would run away, but the moment they saw that the intruder was only I, they would return at once, and their confidence was very charming to me.

Therese took me to her own room, where she told me that she had met the manager of the theatre on her arrival in Rimini, and that he had taken her at once to the apartments engaged for the family.

I should find good apartments, French cooking, and the best French wines.

Palais-Royal, and then, through a narrow staircase, to the apartments of the Duchess de Chartres.

We were not known to anyone, and were rambling through the apartments, when we arrived before a large table at which the princebishop was holding a faro bank.

As soon as the king goes out to hunt, be at hand in the private apartments, and I will seize a favourable moment for introducing you to the famous marquise.

At noon Madame de Pompadour passed through the private apartments with the Prince de Soubise, and my patron hastened to point me out to the illustrious lady.