local and U.S. [KEEP v. 37.] The room usually occupied by a person or family as a sitting-room; a parlor.
1790. Marsham, in G. White’s Selborne (1877), II. 257. On the 24th I found a dark butterfly in my keeping-room.
1794. A. Young, Agric. Suffolk (1797). 11. The door … opening immediately from the external air into the keeping-room.
1852. Mrs. Stowe, Uncle Tom’s C., I. xv. 226. In the family ‘keeping-room,’ as it is termed [of the New England farm-house].
1871. ‘M. Legrand,’ Cambr. Freshm., 55. Most fortunate to get into college in your first term, sir. Yes, sir, this is your keeping-room; and … this here’s your study.
