a woman's bedroom, dressing room, or private sitting room
Origin of boudoir
Fr, literally , pouting room from bouder, to pout, sulk + -oir, as in parloir, parlorboudoir
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boudoir
noun
A private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom, especially one belonging to a woman.
adjective
Of, relating to, or suggestive of sexual intimacy: a boudoir comedy; boudoir fashions.
Origin of boudoir
French from Old French bouder to sulkTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Usage notes
Strictly refers only to a woman’s room, but sometimes used informally or humorously by men to refer to their inner sanctum, as in The Big Sleep (1939), by American writer Raymond Chandler, where Philip Marlowe (the hero, a man) says (p. 53):
- “Tut, tut,” I said. “Come into my boudoir.”
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