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morning-room en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of morning room.
   alt of morning room
   • Mr. Lawson conducting Adeline, they passed into the morning-room, from the windows of which the varied features of the Dale were seen. 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 187:
   • It was almost nine o’clock before he reached the club, where he found Lord Henry sitting alone, in the morning-room, looking very much bored. 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter X, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London; New York, N.Y.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 187:
   • We went into the little morning-room, and Poirot closed the door. 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 116:
   • It is significant, for example, that Evelyn Waugh in a Handful of Dust treats a Syrie Maugham-type scheme as a temporary aberration wholly inimical to the spirit of the house when Tony Last allows his wife Brenda to employ the horrible Mrs Beaver to destroy the Victorian morning-room at Hetton Abbey and replace it with a horror of chrome plate and white sheepskin. 1984, John Martin Robinson, “Mods and Baroquers”, in The Latest Country Houses, London; Sydney, N.S.W.; Toronto, Ont.: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 44:

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