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Definition of Boudoir
1. Noun. A lady's bedroom or private sitting room.
Definition of Boudoir
1. n. A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room.
Definition of Boudoir
1. Noun. A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Boudoir
1. a woman's bedroom [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Boudoir
Literary usage of Boudoir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The House in Good Taste by Elsie De Wolfe (1914)
"XII SITTING-ROOM AND boudoir IN some strange way the word boudoir has lost its
proper significance. People generally think of it as a highfalutin' name for ..."
2. Art Decoration Applied to Furniture by Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1878)
"THE boudoir AND SITTING-ROOM. IT seems expedient that most of the other rooms of the
... But the boudoir is the one place from which the conventional can be ..."
3. Woman as Decoration by Emily Burnbank (1917)
"CHAPTER IX WOMAN DECORATIVE,IN HER boudoir V the way, do you know that boudoir
originally meant pouting room, a place where the ceremonious grande dame of ..."
4. The Country House: A Practical Manual of the Planning and Construction of by Charles Edward Hooper (1906)
"The modern boudoir, which properly forms a part of the bedroom suite, ...
Following the lead of its prototype, the boudoir may be decorated in a rich and ..."
5. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"In the one the Suite is placed on the principal Chamber- story, as a Bedchamber
Suite, and connected with the Gentleman's-room and boudoir below by means of ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1829)
"The Book of the boudoir. By Lady Morgan. In 2 vols. London: Colburn. ... of the
boudoir,' are literally a collection of trifles of very different character, ..."
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