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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A bedroom.

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Examples

  • There is a day-room, a sleeping-room and a wash-room.

    Work Camp 10760 L 2010

  • Under the floors ran flues through which the kitchen smoke escaped, warming the sleeping-room in its passage.

    Chapter 15 2010

  • I doubt many would have predicted that the tipsy reporter in the sleeping-room hotel in Russellville, Kentucky, would someday be a man of national and international influence.

    Don McNay: Al Smith: A Trip From Darkness to Glory Don McNay 2011

  • The sections of the book that I found spellbinding were Al's years in New Orleans and the early years in Russellville when he was working as a reporter and living in a sleeping-room hotel.

    Don McNay: Al Smith: A Trip From Darkness to Glory Don McNay 2011

  • He added that, along with the video screens, Amtrak also took out the electronics that allowed sleeping-room passengers to summon the attendant, which meant we needed to knock on his door if we needed him.

    Rails, Romance and Really Good Wine 2009

  • Mrs. Martha Bethune Baliol always went through the actual duties of the toilette in an inner apartment, which corresponded with her sleeping-room by a small detached staircase.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Our bedroom window, the only sleeping-room on that side of the house, was but a few feet from the ground, and I resolved to descend from it at night and bury him in the garden.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • Our bedroom window, the only sleeping-room on that side of the house, was but a few feet from the ground, and I resolved to descend from it at night and bury him in the garden.

    Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

  • The rooms on either side of this large room were turned into a study for Richard, a sleeping-room, and a study and dressing-room for me.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

  • The old man rose, and taking a light walked towards the end of the apartment, where was a door that led to the small sleeping-room destined for his reception during the night.

    Kenilworth 2004

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