morning-room

See also: morning room

English

Noun

morning-room (plural morning-rooms)

1. Alternative form of morning room.
   • 1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 187:

     Mr. Lawson conducting Adeline, they passed into the morning-room, from the windows of which the varied features of the Dale were seen.

   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, chapter X, in The Picture of Dorian Gray, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward Lock & Co., →OCLC, page 187:

     It was almost nine o’clock before he reached the club, where he found Lord Henry sitting alone, in the morning-room, looking very much bored.

   • 1984, John Martin Robinson, “Mods and Baroquers”, in The Latest Country Houses, London, Sydney, N.S.W., Toronto, Ont.: The Bodley Head, →ISBN, page 44:

     It is significant, for example, that Evelyn Waugh in a Handful of Dust treats a Syrie Maugham-type scheme as a temporary aberration wholly inimical to the spirit of the house when Tony Last allows his wife Brenda to employ the horrible Mrs Beaver to destroy the Victorian morning-room at Hetton Abbey and replace it with a horror of chrome plate and white sheepskin.