sickroom
Example Sentences
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Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.
From Salon
To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.
From Seattle Times
Her mother read Hans Christian Andersen stories as a vaporizer sent puffs of yellow steam into the sickroom.
From New York Times
He says he is a doctor “offering cures” but always also the patient in the sickroom.
From Washington Post
In several, the setting is a sickroom, and in some the allegorical mode still dominates.
From New York Times
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