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elbowroom

[el-boh-room, -room] / ˈɛl boʊˌrum, -ˌrʊm /








NOUN
sea room
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Notable improvements over the 42 include a roomier wheelhouse with an updated electronics panel, more elbowroom in the master stateroom forward, more space on the flybridge and a longer boat deck.

From Time Magazine Archive

It features the builder�s NU-V3 hull design for greater fuel efficiency without sacrificing performance, and it has 35 square feet of elbowroom in the cockpit.

From Time Magazine Archive

By war's end, father Jay was moving aside to give Harsen plenty of elbowroom, and Harsen's ideas were to expand.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.

From Time Magazine Archive

It may look desolate and uncomfortable enough to others, because the central detail is neither bed nor wardrobe, sofa nor armchair, but a good solid writing-table that does not wriggle, and that has wide elbowroom.

From The Damned by Blackwood, Algernon




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