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throneroom en · NOUN

Etymology

From throne + room.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of throne room.
    • In its totality, the throneroom represents a complex play between convention and innovation in the sequence of ancient Mesopotamian art up to that point. 2010, Irene Winter, On Art in the Ancient Near East, page 8:
    • Suddenly before them shone a throneroom of sparkling diamond, emerald, and transparent gold that overlooked a gleaming, golden altar fuming with smoke. Before it burned four flames that moved back and forth, then the vision vanished. 2005, Mark Norris, The Dark Forest, page 91:
    • Thrones, chairs, tables, beds, ropes, carts, and guns appear in lightning speed to transform the stage into battlefields, bedrooms and thronerooms, into roads, docks, and taverns. 1968, Antioch Review, volume 27, page 403:

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