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boudoir - 4 dictionary results

bou⋅doir

[boo-dwahr, -dwawr]
–noun
a woman's bedroom or private sitting room.

Origin:
1775–85; < F: lit., a sulking place (boud(er) to sulk + -oir -ory 2 )
bou·doir   (bōō'dwär', -dwôr')   
n.  A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.

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

Boudoir

Bou*doir"\, n. [F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.] A small room, esp. if pleasant, or elegantly furnished, to which a lady may retire to be alone, or to receive intimate friends; a lady's (or sometimes a gentleman's) private room. --Cowper.

boudoir 
1777, "room where a lady may retire to be alone," from Fr., lit. "pouting room," from bouder "to pout, sulk," which, like pout, is probably of imitative origin.
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