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boudoir
UK /ˈbuːdwɑː/ US /buˈdwɑɹ/
noun 2
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5ADJ.
fitted, huge
VERB + BOUDOIR
like, took, went
BOUDOIR + NOUN
mary, photos
PREP.
around, in, into, up
ADV.
again
Definitions
noun
1
A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.
The Duchesse's boudoir was fitted up in a style of luxury utterly different from anything before familiar to the Carraras.
The church like a huge boudoir spread around her; the arches bent down to gather in the shade the confession of her love; the windows shone resplendent to illumine her face, and the censers would burn that she might appear like an angel amid the fumes of the sweet-smelling odours.
2
An army tent.
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The Duchesse's boudoir was fitted up in a style of luxury utterly different from anything before familiar to the Carraras.
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The church like a huge boudoir spread around her; the arches bent down to gather in the shade the confession of her love; the windows shone resplendent to illumine her face, and the censers would burn
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Dorcas, faithful to her “young gentlemen,” denied strenuously that it could have been John’s voice she heard, and resolutely declared, in the teeth of everything, that it was Mr. Inglethorp who had be
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She's in the boudoir.
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The princess is in her boudoir.
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Tom took some boudoir photos of Mary.
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