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properly speaking, is the room to which a lady retires when she is in the sulks. (French, bouder, to pout or sulk.)
The first boudoirs were those of the mistresses of Louis XV. (See Bower.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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