keeping-roomn.
/ˈkiːpɪŋruːm/, /ˈkiːpɪŋrʊm/, U.S. /ˈkipɪŋˌrum/, /ˈkipɪŋˌrʊm/ local and U.S.
The room usually occupied by a person or family as a sitting-room; a parlour.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > sitting room
parlourc1384
street parlour1734
sitting room1763
keeping-room1771
room1795
voorhuis1822
voorkamer1827
lounge1881
sitkamer1897
sitter1899
sit1911
1771 J. S. Copley in Copley-Pelham Lett. (1914) 141 I forget weither or not there was to be a Clossit in the Keeping Room.
1790 Marsham in G. White's Selborne (1877) II. 257 On the 24th I found a dark butterfly in my keeping-room.
1794 A. Young Gen. View Agric. Suffolk (1797) 11 The door..opening immediately from the external air into the keeping-room.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xv. 226 In the family ‘keeping-room’, as it is termed [of the New England farm-house].
1871 ‘M. Legrand’ Cambr. Freshman 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1771