retiring room

English

Noun

retiring room (plural retiring rooms)

A room set aside for seclusion, rest or quiet.
- 1964 July, Mary Allen, “A Woman's View of the New Coaches”, in Modern Railways, page 9:
  But why cannot women—and mothers especially—have their own retiring room of the kind I remember some years ago finding such a pleasant surprise on a Kings Cross -Edinburgh train?

References

“retiring room”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

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