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elbowroom

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








NOUN
sea room
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This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters.

From Time Magazine Archive

There's elbowroom below for routine maintenance, and vital fluids checks are easy thanks to Volvo's color-coding system.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

Marshall's nationalism rescued American democracy from the vaguer horizons to which Jefferson's cosmopolitanism beckoned, and gave to it a secure abode with plenty of elbowroom.

From John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court by Edward Samuel Corwin




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