Powder Room

It is as if she were pausing to catch her breath on a powder-room settee at Bergdorfs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As the powder-room buzz goes, Obama may as well have tacked a sign over the clubhouse door: "No girls allowed." ❋ Amy Siskind (2011)

They did a 10-month remodeling that included making a television room out of a screened porch while preserving original details like the pecky cypress ceilings in the living room and library, the handblown stained-glass panes in the powder-room door and the Cuban tile floors in the dining room. ❋ Sarah Tilton (2012)

By Friday she'll be back in the U.S. and Canadians will briefly discuss her the way the hosts of a party discuss the boorish party guest no one can remember inviting, the one who threw up in the downstairs powder-room sink without telling anyone. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The site offers helpful advice, including calculators to estimate the yardage you'll need to reupholster your skirted love seat or redo your powder-room walls. ❋ Jen Renzi (2010)

Little Lord Fauntledubya and his regents Rummy and Cheney imagined themselves kings of the world, threw our most fundamental values over the prow of the ship of state and planted a "Mission Accomplished" banner on the iceberg it struck - all of it with less thought than Samantha Jones gives to a mid-seduction powder-room touchup. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In my old house, I painted the powder-room a reddish-orange. ❋ Walter Jon Williams (2007)

In the powder-room scene they all had hats originally. ❋ Leibovitz, Annie (2007)

Men flashing cufflinks, slipping crisp fifties to dames for powder-room tip money. ❋ Cynthia Rowley (2005)

To reach the powder-room, which is always situated in the after-part of a vessel, was easy. ❋ Unknown (2005)

This measure was necessary, in order to stop a leak which the ship had sprung in the powder-room, and to take in more ballast, as she was found too light to carry sail upon a wind. ❋ Unknown (2003)

When he came back, he released Uncle Jake from his powder-room prison. ❋ Barbara Robinette Moss (2001)