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en suite en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɑn ˈswit/ (General-American)
- /ɒn ˈswiːt/ (UK)
- /ɒ̃ ˈswiːt/ (UK)
- än-swēt
Etymology
From French en suite.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Comprising a set of connected rooms; (now specifically) pertaining to a bathroom with an adjoining bedroom, or a bedroom with an adjoining bathroom, such that they form part of the same set of connected rooms.
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(not-comparable) Forming part of a cohesively themed or matching set or series.
The Dress Cap and Under-Sleeves are en suite.
1858 March, G. Brodie, “Fashions for March”, in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, volume XVI, number XCIV, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 576, column 2:
en suite en · ADV
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɑn ˈswit/ (General-American)
- /ɒn ˈswiːt/ (UK)
- /ɒ̃ ˈswiːt/ (UK)
- än-swēt
Etymology
From French en suite.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) So as to form a cohesively themed or matching set.
[E]ach room was decorated en suite, with wallpapers and drapery in matching colours.
2015 April 29, J. Raven, Lost Mansions: Essays on the Destruction of the Country House, Springer, →ISBN:The burgonet was decorated en suite, the sides of the bowl embossed with acanthus scrolls flanking a central palmette and with swagged ribbons at the peak and nape, the hinged cheekpieces embossed in the center with a leafy mask with foliate diadem[…]
1998, Stuart W. Pyhrr, Filippo Negroli, José-A. Godoy, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and His Contemporaries, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 262:The grips of these hilts […] were of solid metal which was decorated en suite with the rest of the hilt.
2012, Ewart Oakeshott, European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 249:
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(not-comparable) In a series of rooms which connect to each other, forming a series or set (later especially with reference to the position of a bathroom).
The three little rooms en suite, with low, smoky ceilings and lit by paraffin lamps, were crammed with people.
1911, Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes, Penguin Classics, published 2007, page 300:This architectural type, a small, furnished and ornate feminine aristocratic space dedicated to bathing and dressing, located en suite with bedroom and salon or dining room, and used by the lady of the house to withdraw or to receive private guests for intimate conversation (or more), is the setting for both exclusion and excess[…].
2016 November 10, Teresa Stoppani, Giorgio Ponzo, George Themistokleous, This Thing Called Theory, Routledge, →ISBN:
en suite en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Southern-England) audio
- /ɑn ˈswit/ (General-American)
- /ɒn ˈswiːt/ (UK)
- /ɒ̃ ˈswiːt/ (UK)
- än-swēt
Etymology
From French en suite.
Meanings
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(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of ensuite.
He got out of bed and went to wash his hands in the en suite, a small pink-tiled room with a potted plant in the corner and little jars of face cream and perfume everywhere.
2018, Sally Rooney, “Two Months Later (April 2012)”, in Normal People:
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