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ˈkeeping-room local and U.S.
[keep v. 37.]
The room usually occupied by a person or family as a sitting-room; a parlour.
1790Marsham in G. White's Selborne (1877) II. 257 On the 24th I found a dark butterfly in my keeping-room. 1794A. Young Agric. Suffolk (1797) 11 The door..opening immediately from the external air into the keeping-room. 1852Mrs. Stowe Uncle Tom's C. xv, In the family ‘keeping-room’, as it is termed [of the New England farm-house]. 1871‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshm. 55 Most fortunate to get into college in your first term, sir. Yes, sir, this is your keeping-room; and..this here's your study. |