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R0218500 (ro͞om, ro͝om)These nouns denote adequate allowance or opportunity for freedom of action: room for improvement; needed elbowroom to negotiate effectively; no latitude allowed in conduct; allowed the chef leeway in choosing the menu; no margin for error; permitting their talents free scope.
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- pied-a-terre - A small town house or rooms used for short residences (1829), from French "foot on the ground."
- party wall - A wall common to two adjoining buildings or rooms.
- lobby - One of its early meanings was "monastic cloister," from Latin lobia, "covered way," before it came to mean the passage or waiting area between rooms in a building.
- enfilade - A suite of rooms with doorways in line with each other—or a vista between rows of trees.
Rooms
See Also: FURNITURE AND FURNISHINGS, HOUSES
- [An office] almost as severe as the cell of some medieval monk —J. D. McClatchy
- Bathroom, mirrored like a discotheque —Diane Ackerman
- Bedroom … large as a football field and as cold —John Le Carre
- Black bedroom with mirrors … looks like a wet dream from Walt Disney —Richard North Patterson
- The blue and white room was … cold and hollow as an October mist —M. J. Farrell
- The cramped space of the vestibule felt like the inside of a hooded cage —Kenzaburo Oë
- [Small room] done up in moist red velvet, like the interior of a womb —Angela Carter
- Dusty [a windowsill] as a literal Sahara —Tom Robbins
- Entry hall … as impersonal as a hotel lounge —John Braine
- Everything in the room was yellow … it was a bit like having swallowed by a butterfly —Pat M. Esslinger-Carr
- [Wooden] floors as blonde as a movie star’s hair —William Hamilton, National Public Radio, “Morning Edition,” April 15, 1987
- The floor [of room set aside for dancing] gleamed like egg yolk —Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
- A hall that was cool and vaulted like a cloister —Ross Macdonald
- (The little den was now) hideous as a torture-chamber —Stephen Crane
- It [a room] is like a monastic cell —V. S. Pritchett
- The living room was spacious and divided like Gaul into three parts —John Cheever
- Oak floors shone like brown glass —Rebecca West
- On the ceiling the reflection of the waves of the bay outside flickered on and on like conversation —Kate Grenville
- The paint [on ceiling of room] peeling like the surface of the moon —Jilly Cooper
- (In my gray) room, bare as a barn —Randall Jarrell
- Room [small and narrow] … friendly as Death Row —Gavin Lyall
- The room glows like a field of forget-me-nots in the high country —Patricia Henley
- A room is like a cast-off shoe, which holds the shape of its owner’s unique foot —Paul Theroux
- Room … like a cell, except that there were no bars over the one small window —Dashiell Hammett
- Room like a cupboard —Katherine Mansfield
- The room [at a Howard Johnson’s motel] … sat like a young bride … wanting only to please you —Max Apple
- The room was as hot as the inside of a pig’s stomach —Madison Smartt Bell
See Also: HEAT
- The room was as quiet and empty as a chapel —Wallace Stegner
See Also: SILENCE
- The room was filled like a pool with darkness —Josephine Jacobson
- The [empty] room was like a fowl plucked clean —Jean Stafford
- Room … with nothing actually matching anything else but everything living happily together, like the random sowing of flowers —Rosamund Pilcher
- Study … like the returned-letter department of a post office, with stacks of paper everywhere, bills paid and unpaid, letters answered and unanswered, tax returns, pamphlets, leaflets. If by mistake we left the door open on a windy day, we came back to find papers flapping through the air like frightened birds —Mary Lavin
- Twilight came drifting into the room like a shimmering cloud of powdered glass —Natascha Wodin
- Walls white like a physician’s consultation room —W. D. Snodgrass
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(ruːm (in compounds rum) , ((American) ru:m)) noun- Where are the fitting rooms? (US)
Where are the changing rooms? (UK) → 更衣室在哪儿?