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Definition of Morning room
1. Noun. A sitting room used during the daylight hours.
Definition of Morning room
1. Noun. a sitting-room in a big house, usually in the past, where people stayed in daylight only. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Morning Room
Literary usage of Morning room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (1899)
"SCENE—Morning-room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house. [Lord Goring, dressed in the
height of fashion, is lounging in an armchair. ..."
2. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"... considering the Morning-room, in the mean time, as a break- fasting-room, or
even an early Sitting-room, perhaps East would be the best aspect so far; ..."
3. The Decoration of Houses by Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (1897)
"X THE DRAWING-ROOM, BOUDOIR, AND MORNING-ROOM THE " with-drawing-room " of
mediaeval England, to which the lady and her maidens retired from the boisterous ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"I remember noticing that there was no noise of the morning-room door having been
opened. After watching the handle of the door which led from my room to the ..."
5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1870)
"You will go to Mrs. Greville in the morning-room," he said ; " she wants to speak
to you. Mind what she says to you. She is very good to you, and you ought ..."
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