boudoir
/ˈbuːdwɑː/US/buˈdwɑɹ/
boudoir noun: a woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.
Noun
boudoir (plural boudoirs)
- A woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.
- The Duchesse's boudoir was fitted up in a style of luxury utterly different from anything before familiar to the Carraras.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XI, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 118
- The church like a huge boudoir spread around her; the arches bent down to gather in the shade the confession of her love; the windows shone resplendent to illumine her face, and the censers would burn that she might appear like an angel amid the fumes of the sweet-smelling odours.1886, Gustave Flaubert, chapter I, in Eleanor Marx-Aveling, transl., Madame Bovary: Provincial Manners […], London: Vizetelly & Co., […], →OCLC, part III, page 264
- An army tent.
boudoir meaning in Tamil
boudoir in Tamil
- பெண்டிர் உள்ளறை
Examples of boudoir in a sentence
- Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 154:
- I found her in her boudoir getting outside a dish of tea and a crumpet.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
Forms of boudoir
| plural | boudoirs |
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Origin of boudoir
Borrowed from French boudoir, from bouder (“to sulk”), of Germanic origin.
Words formed from boudoir
- boudoir bandicoot
- boudoir biscuit
- boudoir chair
- boudoir lamp
- boudoir piano
- smell like a tart's boudoir
Phrases with boudoir
Words that rhyme with boudoir
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- bête noire
Questions about boudoir
- What does boudoir mean?
- Boudoir means a woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom.
- What is boudoir in Tamil?
- Boudoir in Tamil is பெண்டிர் உள்ளறை. See Boudoir meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use boudoir in a sentence?
- Inglethorp who had been in the boudoir with her mistress.
- What part of speech is boudoir?
- Boudoir is a noun.
- How do you pronounce boudoir?
- Boudoir is pronounced /ˈbuːdwɑː/ (UK).
- What is the plural of boudoir?
- The plural of boudoir is boudoirs.
Words near boudoir in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: boudoir (page history and authors); boudoir (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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