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Definition of Billiard room
1. Noun. A room in which billiards is played.
Generic synonyms: Room
Definition of Billiard room
1. Noun. A room in a house/hotel in which there is a billiard table. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billiard Room
Literary usage of Billiard room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mark Twain: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... CCLIV BILLIARD-ROOM NOTES THE billiard games went along pretty steadily that
winter. My play improved, and Clemens found it necessary to eliminate my ..."
2. The House and Home: A Practical Book by Lyman Abbott (1896)
"These have arisen out of the various necessities of the household — kitchen,
dining-room, parlor, billiard-room, and boudoir. ..."
3. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1886)
"The Station Club comprises a library, billiard-room, swimming- bath, racquet
court, and garden. The military force in cantonments ordinarily consists of a ..."
4. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"Billiard-room for occasional use as such. — Ladies' Cloak-room.—Illustrations
patrii». A CLOAK-ROOM in the sense here referred to is a Retiring-room for ..."
5. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"She had been out but for half an hour, after not speaking all the morning ; and
having seen Cutler at the billiard-room window, and suspecting we might take ..."
6. Letters on Landscape Photography by Henry Peach Robinson (1888)
"A TALK IN THE BILLIARD-ROOM. I PROMISED I would give you something ' like a report
of one of the discussions that take place at night in the billiard-room ..."
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