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bou·doir

 (bo͞o′dwär′, -dwôr′)
n.
A private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom, especially one belonging to a woman.
adj.
Of, relating to, or suggestive of sexual intimacy: a boudoir comedy; boudoir fashions.

[French, from Old French bouder, to sulk.]
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boudoir

(ˈbuːdwɑː; -dwɔː)
n
a woman's bedroom or private sitting room
[C18: from French, literally: room for sulking in, from bouder to sulk]
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bou•doir

(ˈbu dwɑr, -dwɔr)

n.
a woman's bedroom or private sitting room.
[1775–85; < French: literally, a sulking place]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.boudoir - a lady's bedroom or private sitting roomboudoir - a lady's bedroom or private sitting room
bedchamber, bedroom, sleeping accommodation, sleeping room, chamber - a room used primarily for sleeping
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Translations

boudoir

[ˈbuːdwɑːʳ] Ntocador m
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boudoir

[ˈbuːdwɑːr] (old-fashioned) nboudoir m
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boudoir

nBoudoir nt (old)
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References in classic literature ?
Leaving her husband and her stepdaughters to entertain Sir Joseph and Miss Lavinia, Lady Winwood took Natalie into her own boudoir, which communicated by a curtained opening with the drawing-room.
He did not undress, but walked up and down with his regular tread over the resounding parquet of the dining room, where one lamp was burning, over the carpet of the dark drawing room, in which the light was reflected on the big new portrait of himself handing over the sofa, and across her boudoir, where two candles burned, lighting up the portraits of her parents and woman friends, and the pretty knick-knacks of her writing table, that he knew so well.
Inglethorp came out of her boudoir. She looked flushed and upset.
The maid had delivered her mistress's note to Mercy, and had gone away again on her second errand to Grace Roseberry in her boudoir. Lady Janet was seated at her writing-table, waiting for the appearance of the woman whom she had summoned to her presence.
If you go at once to your countess' boudoir you will find them together.
A light snow was falling as they descended at the door, and in the morning, when Dorothea passed from her dressing-room avenue the blue-green boudoir that we know of, she saw the long avenue of limes lifting their trunks from a white earth, and spreading white branches against the dun and motionless sky.
"Please go to my boudoir, Jellia, and get the white piglet I left on the dressing-table.
This consisted of a bed-room, an ante-room, a small bath-room, a boudoir, and a drawing-room.
She opened a door near the fireplace, which led, through a little corridor hung with rare prints, to her own boudoir. "Isabel!" she called out, "how is Tommie?"
Entering his mother's boudoir one day Halpin Frayser kissed her upon the forehead, toyed for a moment with a lock of her dark hair which had escaped from its confining pins, and said, with an obvious effort at calmness:
On the floor above were similar rooms, with the addition of a third, formed out of the ante-chamber; these three rooms were a salon, a boudoir, and a bedroom.
They placed it in a small cabinet, anteroom, or boudoir rather, adjoining the saloon where we once saw M.