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billiard-room en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, dated) Dated form of billiard room.
   alt of billiard room
   • The drawing-room had been modernized, and contrasted ill with an ancient paneled billiard-room, through which one had to pass ere it was entered. 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 197:
   • Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. / We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh. 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
   • The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room. 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:
   • […] who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners […] 1857, Punch:

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