sitting-room

See also: sitting room

English

Noun

sitting-room (plural sitting-rooms)

1. Alternative form of sitting room
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter IX, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 160:

     They crossed the strip of garden, the only thing the Curate had to be proud of,—and he was proud of it,—and the door (a glass door) of a very small sitting-room stood open to receive them.

   • 2008, Robyn Sisman, chapter 27, in A Hollywood Ending, London: Orion Books, →ISBN, page 294:

     After a not-too-intrusive hunt he discovered Paige’s address book in a drawer in the sitting-room.