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Keeping room

Keeping \Keep"ing\, n.

  1. A holding; restraint; custody; guard; charge; care; preservation.

    His happiness is in his own keeping.
    --South.

  2. Maintenance; support; provision; feed; as, the cattle have good keeping.

    The work of many hands, which earns my keeping.
    --Milton.

  3. Conformity; congruity; harmony; consistency; as, these subjects are in keeping with each other; his levity is not in keeping with the seriousness of the occasion.

  4. (Paint.) Harmony or correspondence between the different parts of a work of art; as, the foreground of this painting is not in keeping.

    Keeping room, a family sitting room. [New Eng. & Prov. Eng.]

    Syn: Care; guardianship; custody; possession.

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keeping room

n. (context dated dialect UK US New England English) A family sitting room.