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boudoir
/buˈdwɑɹ/
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What does boudoir mean?
noun
- A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.
- (slang) An army tent.
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Mr. Superintendent’s next proceeding took him back to the “boudoir” again, with my daughter and me at his heels.
A few years ago, under the empire, M. Louis Lacour found a manuscript catalogue of the books in the Queen’s boudoir.
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The Duchesse de Duras read to three or four friends her unpublished Ourika, in her boudoir furnished by X. in sky-blue satin.
Escorted by a Cabinet Minister, she had once more found her way to the tiny boudoir, still the most deserted among all the rooms.
Any private hours in her day were usually spent in her blue-green boudoir, and she had come to be very fond of its pallid quaintness.