Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chamber or cavity of a shell in which an animal lives, as distinguished from that part from which the body of the animal has receded during the growth of the shell: said especially of fossil cephalopods.
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Examples
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Whatever he meant by the gibe -- and some smack of an evil jest lurked in his tone -- he played the host so far as to urge his bewildered companion along the passage and into the living-chamber on the left, where he had seen from without that his orders to light and lay were being executed.
Count Hannibal A Romance of the Court of France Stanley John Weyman 1891
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In the round living-chamber below Ramiro was alone.
Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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