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Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century. In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English [1]), lounge (British English [2]), sitting room (British English [3]), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment.
A literalelephantin a room, attending a Sydneytea partyin 1939. The metaphorical elephant in the room represents an obvious problem or difficult situation that people do not want to talk about. [1] The expression "the elephant in the room" (or "the elephant in the living room")[2][3]is a metaphoricalidiomin Englishfor an important or enormous ...
Drawing room. A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. [ 1]
Unlike the drawing room definition that emphasizes an air of formality, a living room is strictly informal. The Oxford English Dictionary definition states, “A living room is a room in a house ...
Nazism. Lebensraum ( German pronunciation: [ˈleːbənsˌʁaʊm] ⓘ, living space) is a German concept of expansionism and Völkisch nationalism, the philosophy and policies of which were common to German politics from the 1890s to the 1940s. First popularized around 1901, [ 2] Lebensraum became a geopolitical goal of Imperial Germany in World ...
Parlour. A parlour (or parlor) is a reception room or public space. In medieval Christian Europe, the "outer parlour" was the room where the monks or nuns conducted business with those outside the monastery and the "inner parlour" was used for necessary conversation between resident members. In the English-speaking world of the 18th and 19th ...
Vestibule (architecture) A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space [ 1] such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc. The term applies to structures in both ...
A "bow garret" is a two-story "outhouse" situated at the back of a typical terraced house often used in Lancashire for the hat industry in pre-mechanised days. "Bowing" was the name given to the technique of cleaning up animal (e.g. rabbit) fur in the early stages of preparation for turning it into hats. What is now believed to be the last bow ...