[f. LOUNGE v. + -ING1.] The action of LOUNGE v.
1793. Ld. N. Spencer, in Ld. Auckland’s Corr. (1862), III. 121. Two or three hour’s lounging in a place called a club.
1823. Byron, Juan, XI. lxvi. His afternoons he pass’d in visits, luncheons, Lounging, and boxing.
1901. Edin. Rev., April, 439. Seldom or never is the pulpit used … to denounce idleness, lounging or laziness.
b. attrib., as lounging-book, -chair, -hall, -jacket, -place.
1790. H. Walpole, in Walpoliana, clxxiv. 79. A catalogue raisonnée of such [novels] might be itself a good *lounging book.
1825. Gentl. Mag., XCV. I. 159. We assure our readers that the compilation is … an excellent lounging-book.
1841. R. P. Ward, De Clifford, III. viii. 123. See these superb sofas, carpets, tables, and *lounging-chairs.
1867. Trollope, Chron. Barset, I. xxv. 217. [He] was sitting in a lounging-chair and smoking a cigar.
1785. Lounger, No. 8, ¶ 2. If you will make Dun’s rooms a *Lounging Hall instead of a Chapel.
1861. Hughes, Tom Brown at Oxf., xxxiii. (1889), 319. The owner of the mansion was seated at table in a *lounging jacket.
1837. Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1851), II. xii. 183. Peter had long absented himself from his former *lounging-places.
