sickroom

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a room in which an ill or injured person is cared for or confined while recovering

   The family kept the sickroom quiet while the patient slept.

A compound of sick + room, recorded from the eighteenth century. Before modern hospital care became widespread, a household room was often set aside for an ill family member and became known as the sickroom.

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