keeping-room

English

Noun

keeping-room (plural keeping-rooms)

1. Alternative form of keeping room
   • 1876 May, Etta W. Pierce, “Pearl”, in Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine, volume 38, number 5, page 350:

     At the same moment Pearl Goclet turned her fair head and saw a man standing on the threshold of the old keeping-room, gazing in at her.

   • 1896 March, Charlotte Lyon, “Memories of Bluemeadow”, in The Bay State Monthly, volume 14, number 1, page 88:

     She would come swinging into the "keeping-room" in cold weather, leaving the door wide open with the selfish indifference of a cat, to stretch her great bulk before the fire.

   • 1981, Betty Levin, The keeping-room, page 230:

     Now they have settled in at the far end of the keeping-room.