sickroom
Origin of sickroom
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How to use sickroom in a sentence
"I'm going out and let you sleep," Braceway insisted, displaying the average man's feeling of absolute helplessness in a sickroom.
The Winning Clue | James Hay, Jr.He ignores the individuality of the room; the ball-room and the sickroom are lighted alike.
Color Value | C. R. CliffordIt is better to live and be done with it, than to die daily in the sickroom.
The Pocket R.L.S. | Robert Louis StevensonIt is not the stillness of a summer night in the country, nor of a church, nor of a sickroom: it is the silence of death!
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 | VariousA spell seemed, indeed, to rest on all things, which had in it more than the watchful hush of the ordinary sickroom.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady | Lucas Malet
British Dictionary definitions for sickroom
/ (ˈsɪkˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /
a room to which a person who is ill is confined
a room set aside, as in a school, for people who are taken ill
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