Meaning of billiard-room | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of billiard room.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“The drawing-room had been modernized, and contrasted ill with an ancient paneled billiard-room, through which one had to pass ere it was entered.”

“[…] who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners […]”

“The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room.”

“Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. / We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.”

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