How To Use Boudoir In A Sentence
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It was a sort of boudoir or dressing-room, with a few pretty old portraits and miniatures, and a number of Louis Quatorze looking-glasses hung round, and such pretty quaint cabriole gilt and pale green furniture.
Wylder's Hand
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A week before she arrived in each city, Keaton reports, she'd send an interior decorator to redo her suite and dressing room, with ‘magnificent mirrors with gold frames and drapes suitable to one of the fabulous boudoirs at Versailles.’
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I trust that our council is not spending the £20,000 per day collected from hard-pressed motorists on decorating our roads to the point where they start to resemble a tart's boudoir.
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This doesn't mean your living room needs to take on the look of a boudoir - keep backgrounds, walls and furniture simple.
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach, and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other _objets d'art, _ pieces of jewelry, and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: The more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Mr. Beckford's observation on his first view of Mad. d 'Aranda's boudoir instantly recurred to my mind.
Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath
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It is telling that key interactions with each of his ladies take place in the inner recesses of the Hall, in boudoirs, closets, and parlors, and that as long as Orlando himself is in the Hall, his hold on both seems secure.
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Explode strong: 14 - year - old little girl explodes again boudoir photograph!
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On one hand, there was an exciting variety about Caprice's boudoir behaviour, the merry concubine performing for the fun of it; on t'other, my horsey charmer was wildly passionate and spoony about me - and there was more of her.
Watershed
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The empress's favourite, and perhaps more, he is admitted to her private boudoir in the Little Hermitage.
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The romance novel lay on Eva's boudoir dresser, open and ragged from her wear-and-tear for the last week and a half.
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In soft pastels, the short and sexy dresses showing asymmetrical hemlines are unfinished with lace and ribbon, exuding the feel of a Parisian boudoir.
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You'll often find boudoir pillows in soft, smooth satin, rich velvet, lace, crochet covers and more.
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What does look nice, though, and is easy for anyone to wear, is a flash of pink on your feet - flip-flops, pointy suede mules, low-heeled pumps or full-on boudoir-style high-heeled, round-toed shoes.
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Guests will disembark at a landing quay before heading below the surface to their watery boudoirs with views out into the open ocean.
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Stuart must have rung my boudoir and learned how the telephone is answered in about fifteen languages so far.
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While Dick Forrest scanned the pamphlet on hog cholera issued by the State of Iowa, through his open windows, across the wide court, began to come sounds of the awakening of the girl who laughed from the wooden frame by his bed and who had left on the floor of his sleeping porch, not so many hours before, the rosy, filmy, lacy, boudoir cap so circumspectly rescued by Oh My.
CHAPTER VII
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The couple still have the original plans, showing a morning room and a boudoir.
Times, Sunday Times
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The boudoir began as the small room with a dressing table adjoining the bedroom.
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Alternatively, transform your living room into a bohemian boudoir: the Moulin Rouge nightclub, Paris.
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So smooth, indeed, are the transitions he effects that we find ourselves in the boudoir even before we realise we have left the marketplace behind.
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Consulting the stars in regards to the accoutering of the boudoir—I’m impressed!
Angels of a Lower Flight
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Eastern versions of the bedrooms from Deep South plantation houses began to appear as did French boudoirs la Louis XIV, while four-poster beds and drapes signified Olde England.
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That was back in 1903, and the editor's room was later described as being like a woman's boudoir, with dainty wall mirrors, chintz curtains and Queen Anne chairs.
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So astonished and delighted was Goodcastle at this find that he took only it, a diamond cravat pin, a modest broach and fifty gold guineas, eschewing the many other objets d-art, pieces of jewelry and gold and silver coin cluttering Mayhew's boudoir (another rule of thievery: the more modest the take, the more likely that weeks or months will pass before the victim discovers his loss, if indeed he ever does).
More Twisted Stories Vol II
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Maigret was stifling in the oversoft chair, in the boudoir whose blue was becoming unbearable to him.
Maigret Hesitates
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With a good referral, you can get to a shrink with expertise in this area, and you'll be back in the boudoir in no time.
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The curtains were drawn and the room was dark like some seedy boudoir.
THE EXECUTION
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Pope was the Homer of the drawing-room, the boudoir, the tea-urn, the omber-party, the sedan-chair, the parrot cage, and the lap-dogs.
Brief History of English and American Literature
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By arranging a selection of one 40 by 40-inch canvas plucked from each series — a Shot Orange Marilyn, a Liz, and a Red Jackie — on the wall of his bedroom at home in the expensive, “five-towns” suburb of Lawrence, Long Island, the collector Leon Kraushar not only compounded the allure of each subject, but by forming a kind of funerary polyptych for the sleek modern boudoir, surely also heightened the varying degrees of frank sexuality Andy applied to the eyes and lips of all three.
Archive 2009-01-01
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The décor of ‘male’ and ‘female’ rooms was distinguished, with dark panelling prevalent in dining and billiard rooms, lighter plasterwork in drawing rooms, boudoirs, and bedrooms.
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Hill as a "frowst"; Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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In my boudoir I sigh over the close of spring.
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You'll often find boudoir pillows in soft, smooth satin, rich velvet, lace, crochet covers and more.
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Then some more native parties in short kimonos that showed their aboriginees punctured the near-horizon, and me and High had to skip back into Father Axletree's private boudoir.
Options
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Throw open the door of the boudoir, Aminadab," said Aylmer, "and burn a pastil.
The Short-story
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The modification of old-fashioned rules in this regard has made the lines faint, it is true, and there is no book on etiquette that does not reprehend as “unbecoming a gentleman” smoking in drawing-rooms, boudoirs, dining-rooms, restaurants, where now men not only are allowed, and invited, to smoke, but where highly respectable women have been known to join them.
Smoking Etiquette | Edwardian Promenade
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Let cool and serve with ladyfingers (biscuits à la cuiller or boudoirs), or substitute another kind of light-textured cookie.
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Francis held my attention the second I stepped into her stark boudoir-style showroom with splashes of turquoise and fuchsia in the shape of strappy heels, shiny bags and sexy li'l numbers in wool jersey, mesh, chiffon and shearling.
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In long passages both bawdy and fantastic, we are shown how the feminine principle makes nonsense of all forms of statecraft, including even the cleverest ones adumbrated in The Prince, and how the distance between the boudoir and the bordello or zenana or harem is disconcertingly short.
Cassocks and Codpieces
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Of the shades I tried, Rose Boudoir and Rose Thé are the most opaque, which you can hopefully see in the swatches above.
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He, the unpublished writer and debutant amorist, is always telling her, the well-known poet and skilled boudoir operator, just exactly what is what in both art and love: 'O enfant, enfant, que tu es jeune encore!' is a characteristic apostrophe to a woman eleven years his senior.
Unlikely Friendship
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I arose late this morning, having had a marathon lie-in (for me), and emerged from the boudoir at 11: 56.
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Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger
French Word-A-Day:
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There are no plans to get married though, even if Elliot has stopped trying to convert the boudoir into an ironmongers.
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Make your way past the alabaster nudes and sepia prints of West in better days; step over the polar bear shagpile rug, and into the salmon-pink inner sanctum of her boudoir, and what would you find?
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The idea that we congregate in our boudoirs and plan to become walking temptations always has me in fits.
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The sedentary multipara, curled up in her boudoir on a rainy afternoon, finds nothing to her taste in his grim tales.
A Book of Prefaces
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The majority take the theme of boy meets girl as their starting point, but some have extra qualities that make them more suited to the boudoir than the bathroom.
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Once fans have finished furnishing their rooms, they're being encouraged to send pictures of their boudoirs to the official Olsen twins' website, where they will be posted.
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His private boudoir was heaped with the stuff, and there was a full-length mirror hung above the bed.
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The senses are very important in a woman 's boudoir.
Times, Sunday Times
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Intended for the boudoir, this is a small writing table fitted to hold toiletries and bibelots.
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With its opulent boudoirs, quaint cul-de-sacs and misty train stations, it's not the way France actually looked, but the way we wish it did.
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The girl loses control of her boy's toys and by the time l'hunque emerges from his boudoir, la fille has been eaten by the sofa.
The Hard Sell: Stella Artois
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Backgrounds of boudoir pink, persimmon, lilac and aqua combine with the calligraphic grace of his fleshy figures in images of stylized elegance.
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The wine is billed as if women's palates require bland, de-alcoholized wine or worse, that their femininity compels them to steal away to the boudoir to down a bottle of the stuff before covering up the evidence with mouthwash and a spritz of White Diamond.
Molly Laas: Drinking While Female
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Scaife bought sporting prints, a couple of Detaille's lithographs, and an easy-chair, known to dwellers upon the Hill as a "frowst;" Kinloch hung upon his side of the wall four pretty reproductions of French engravings, and with the help of three yards of velveteen and some cheap lace he made a very passable imitation of the mantel-cover in his mother's London boudoir; John scorned velveteen, lace, "frowsts," and French engravings.
The Hill A Romance of Friendship
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Rooms are ornate and boudoir-esque, many with fourposters draped with flowing fabric.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once fans have finished furnishing their rooms, they're being encouraged to send pictures of their boudoirs to the official Olsen twins' website, where they will be posted.
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I cannot decide whether I should have followed my wife and friends to their respective boudoirs at a civilised hour, or shared the experience live with the other fanatics who stayed up to witness the end of an era.
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That was back in 1903, and the editor's room was later described as being like a woman's boudoir, with dainty wall mirrors, chintz curtains and Queen Anne chairs.
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I find it hard to believe that women want to have sex with strange men one after the other after the other, whether it's in swanky hotels, cosy suburban boudoirs or dirty back alleys.
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As a novelist, he held that she pointed the way to Lever, and adds: 'The rattling vivacity of the Irish character, its ebullient spirit, and its wrathful eloquence of sentiment and language, she well portrayed; one can smell the potheen and turf smoke even in her pictures of a boudoir.'
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
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Whether it be the boudoir of a strumpet or the death-bed of a monarch -- the strong character of a statesman-warrior abounding in contrasts and rich in mystery, or the personal history of a judge trained in the Old Bailey to vulgarize and ensanguine the King's Bench -- he luxuriates with a vigour and variety of language and illustration which renders his "History" an attractive and absorbing story-book.
Famous Reviews
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In the tome, full of glamorous soft-focus pictures of the footballer, he waxes lyrical about the art of seduction, with fish his favourite weapon for luring girlfriends from the dining room to the boudoir.
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By the age of 10, girls were banished to their boudoirs, barred from venturing out or pursuing anything but domestic activities.
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The butler would not allow any common ragamuffin, and the girl in her fine silk pinafore was far from a ragamuffin, into her boudoir.
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Does it affect men and women equally, or is this a gender-specific icon that brings out the inner bodacious babe in the local boudoir set?
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Make your way past the alabaster nudes and sepia prints of West in better days; step over the polar bear shagpile rug, and into the salmon-pink inner sanctum of her boudoir, and what would you find?
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Terms & Expressions: la bouderie (f) = sulkiness, (fit of the) sulks bouder quelqu'un = to refuse to have anything to do with someone avoir des succès de boudoir = to be successful with women un boudoir = a private sitting room; also a finger-shaped cookie or cake known in English as a "ladyfinger
French Word-A-Day:
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perfumed boudoir
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I have seen several paintings of women in what is described as "undress" which could mean house dress or could mean boudoir.
Archive 2004-06-01
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A precious opium-eating den, with a boudoir for hire and an elegant powder room, this hangout is lavish and otherworldly.
