boudoir

• Ambition was her master-passion, and her boudoir was the council chamber of the royal ministers. —  A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges
• But if you will come up to my boudoir, I will look over my engagement book, and perhaps I can help you to a paragraph or two The word boudoir was a sweetmeat to Lena's palate, combined, as it was, with the knowledge that her visitor, with a sister, kept house in three rooms So they went up stairs, and Lena babbled and preened herself, while Miss Huntress frowned and pondered on the difficulties of making anything readable out of her small kernel of information. —  Jewel Weed
• She keeps it in a drawer in her boudoir, which is usually locked. —  The Stretton Street Affair
• Tell Jean to serve breakfast here in my boudoir, and then go and tell Monsieur de Larsagny that I await him A quarter of an hour later the banker appeared in the boudoir He ate so greedily that Carmen impatiently exclaimed Are you not yet satisfied Really, I have a good appetite this morning," nodded Larsagny Do you know how your phenomenal appetite appears to me?" —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II
• END OF THE SECOND ACT THE THIRD ACT The scene is LILY'S boudoir-- a room upon the second floor of her house, adjoining her bedroom. —  The 'Mind the Paint' Girl A Comedy in Four Acts

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