Definition of "sickroom" [sickroom]

• A room occupied by a sick person. (noun)

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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."
• "A long-faced nurse in a sickroom is a visible embodiment and presence of the disease against which the eager life of the patient is fighting in agony."