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n. -The space in which an infirm person is confined

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  • But a sickroom was a sickroom, and illness had an odor.
  • But the sickroom was a different place now, when we had Allan's cheery visits to enliven our long evenings.
  • We were all crowded into the little study, which I'd reluctantly surrendered as a "sickroom" when Sadd had announced his impending demise.
  • I left his sickroom and went outside for some air.
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