Definition of "morning-room" [morning-room]

• A room used by the women of a family as a boudoir or sitting-room, and supposed to be occupied only before dinner. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "They showed me into a morning-room and presently she came to me, an earnest-looking girl in a dark dress with a touch of black in it."
• "From this, and one later reference, it seems obvious that Flashman was particularly impressed by a Punch cartoon, published shortly after Balaclava, showing a stout British father brandishing a poker with patriotic zeal in the morning-room as he reads news of the Charge of the Light Brigade. (p. 57)"
• "The first she knew was when Boyle appeared at the morning-room door."