Boudoir

This little summer-house, which he called his boudoir, was not much bigger than a sedan-chair; the door of it opened into the garden, which was covered with pinks, roses, and honeysuckles. ❋ Various (N/A)

Before dinner I showed her my husband's pictures; and she was especially pleased with that which hung in the little room off the study, which I called my boudoir, -- a very ugly word, by the way, which I am trying to give up, -- with a curtain before it. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

When Lawrence was gone, the old soldier found his daughter in a tastefully arranged closet which she called her boudoir, the miniature glass-door of which opened on a luxuriant garden, where wood, water, sunshine, and herbage, wild and tame, seemed to revel for the mastery. ❋ Unknown (1859)

Lady R-- rang the bell of the sitting-room, which she called a boudoir, and a lad of fourteen, in a blue blouse and leather belt made his appearance. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Knowing what a sperm and egg get up to in the privacy of their own boudoir is all very well, but understanding that if you let yourself be videoed having sex that film can be used against you is perhaps more useful. ❋ Miranda Sawyer (2010)

Her boudoir is studded round with skulls like a charnel-house; and bold and dirty creatures from St. Giles come into her very dressing - room, with their rickety brats in their arms, to put their large misshapen heads under her inspection, as the future mighty geniuses of the land. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Though the dictionary says that a boudoir is "un petit salon de dame," * it is really nothing more fancy or exciting than a pouting room. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I know a woman whose first-floor rooms are very artistically furnished in blue and gray, whose boudoir is in rose and ivory, and whose sewing room -- "her workshop" she calls it -- is in softest gray. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The flat on the right comprised a hall, a large drawing-room, a smaller sitting-room they called a boudoir, three bedrooms, a dining-room, a kitchen and a bathroom. ❋ Simenon, Georges, 1903- (1960)

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. ❋ Alice Ames Winter (1904)

She was, as usual, seated in what, for want of a better term, we called her boudoir, and on the curtains being drawn she rose from her couch and, stretching out both hands, came forward to greet us, or rather ❋ Henry Rider Haggard (1890)

It was a cold, raw November day, and the rain was beating against the windows of the little room she called her boudoir, and where she now sat sewing, when Victor, who had been sent to Grassy ❋ Mary Jane Holmes (1866)

I guess the dress was made to look more "boudoir" --i.e. without the filled-in neckline, rich sinful color, and opening down the front--because of the class of women with whom Barbosa most likely associated. ❋ Holly (2004)

Mrs. Spleist has a "boudoir" -- and it is a boudoir! ❋ Elinor Glyn (1903)

a casualness that Graham recognized as histrionic, when, five minutes later, in boudoir cap and delectable negligee, Ernestine Desten drifted in and expressed surprise at finding such a multitude of early risers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

MONTAGNE: I like the one word you just mentioned, boudoir, which is usually connected in - was then - even to sort of sexual intrigue. ❋ Unknown (2010)