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boudoir

noun
/ˈbuːdwɑː/UK/buˈdwɑɹ/US/ˈbuːdwɔːɹ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French boudoir, from bouder (“to sulk”), of Germanic origin.

  1. borrowed from boudoir

Definitions

  1. A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.

    • The Duchesse's boudoir was fitted up in a style of luxury utterly different from anything before familiar to the Carraras.
    • Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.

  2. An army tent.

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Derived

boudoir bandicoot, boudoir biscuit, boudoir chair, boudoir lamp, boudoir piano, smell like a tart's boudoir

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA