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  • noun Alternative form of sitting room.

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Examples

  • Dominating their sitting-room was the largest bottle of Scotch (or of anything else) I have ever seen.

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  • The sitting-room sofa should therefore be the ideal vantage point from which to enjoy the proceedings.

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  • Captain Haskett-Smith seems to be holding his own camera, and leans against the window-sill of a charming small sitting-room which, eighty years later, Naomi Miller and I used as an office when together we worked as aides to Davis McCaughey, certainly the most beautiful, tranquil, and comfortable I shall ever occupy.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • Having told Gabi to come up, she moved the tray of half-eaten food from the sitting-room table of her suite and placed it outside the door.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • I burn a grate fire in my sitting-room at Berkeley.

    Chapter XV 2010

  • Having told Gabi to come up, she moved the tray of half-eaten food from the sitting-room table of her suite and placed it outside the door.

    The Empty Family Colm Tóibín 2011

  • I have only the faintest recollections of Pa, mainly, I think, as an enormous pair of highly polished brogues, which I recall studying intently at floor level in the sitting-room at 18, Denham Place.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Captain Haskett-Smith seems to be holding his own camera, and leans against the window-sill of a charming small sitting-room which, eighty years later, Naomi Miller and I used as an office when together we worked as aides to Davis McCaughey, certainly the most beautiful, tranquil, and comfortable I shall ever occupy.

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  • It was almost two rooms in one, the one he was in evidently the sitting-room, and the one he could see into, the bedroom.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • He also demonstrated one of the home's architectural quirks: a hidden bar, accessible through a secret door in the sitting-room bookcase.

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