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living-roomy en · ADJ

Etymology

From living room + -y.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a living room.
   • His partner, artist Brooke Young, decorated the basic dining room with both masculine and feminine details. That includes some handpainted walls using oxidized metal paint, unusual lighting and artwork, warm woods and polished concrete floor. “It’s a 1970s rock star’s Parisian apartment,” she said. “It has a livingroom-y feel.” 2018 April 1, Maureen Wallenfang, “Open: Wildflower Pizzeria gets cooking”, in The Post-Crescent, volume 99, number 72, page 1D, columns 3–4:
   • This is the year of Medallion Styling for Owens—deep, living-roomy space, gear space galore, rich colors with matched upholstery . . . all the standard equipment you need to have a wonderful time on the water. 1962 April, Popular Boating, volume 11, number 4, page 18:
   • The Bru (sounds like an insurance company) restaurant and bar, and a living-roomy lounge full of board games and newspapers, look out onto a paved, Riviera-style terrace and miles of shingle-shore swimming in the hazy dusk. 2009 June 10, Nick Curtis, “A classical, coastal delight”, in Evening Standard, page 47, column 1:
   • Maybe it’d look nice in the guest room. It’s not really a living-roomy lamp. 1958, Mary Stolz, And Love Replied, page 12:
   • There was a gray rug, and the blue was again used in the portières and in a few cushions. It sounds very living-roomy, I acknowledge, but, like all the other rooms I have mentioned, it had all the comfort of a living-room with that indefinable charm and pleasant suggestion which are an absolute part of the modern parlor. 1913, House & Garden, volume 24:
   • The Dotsons opened up the living-roomy coffee shop – with wireless Internet to boot – in mid-October at 2829 E. 29th Ave., in Lincoln Heights. 2007 November 2, Tom Bowers, “Living on a caffeinated retirement plan”, in 7 (The Spokesman-Review), page 19, columns 1–2:
   • How intimate and living-roomy is the space? There’s even a fireplace on the wall. Yup. Not your average concert experience. 2018 September 30, Peter D. Kramer, “50 seats only: Tiny concerts, big names”, in The Journal News, volume 130, number 148, page 6C, column 4:

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