billiard-room

See also: billiard room

English

Noun

billiard-room (plural billiard-rooms)

1. Dated form of billiard room.
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 197:

     The drawing-room had been modernized, and contrasted ill with an ancient paneled billiard-room, through which one had to pass ere it was entered.

   • 1857, Punch:

     […] who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners […]

   • 1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:

     The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room.

   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. / We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.