Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: boudoir
IPA transcription: [b'ud,ɔɪɹ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: boudoir
    Meaning: a lady's bedroom or private sitting room
Usage examples
  • The moment Mary was out of the study, he walked into his wife's boudoir, and shut the door behind him.
  • For instance, she is careful to put it on to be proposed to; and again its first appearance is excused in words that should henceforth be serviceable in every boudoir.
  • Listlessly she sat in the small, still deserted boudoir, looking out through the curtained doorway on the dancing couples beyond: looking at them, yet seeing nothing, hearing the music, yet conscious of naught save a feeling of expectancy, of anxious, weary waiting.
  • I had been in great perplexity how to let her know that I was there; for to announce yourself to a lady by a voice out of the darkness of her boudoir, or to wait for candles to discover you where she thought she was quite alone--neither is a pleasant way of presenting yourself to her consciousness.