sewing room
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2.2
- noun
- /ˈsoʊɪŋ ruːm/
:
taller de costura
- We converted the spare room into a sewing room filled with fabrics and machines.
- mother's sewing room
Examples
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And then after the kids grew up and left home, we turned it into Ellen's sewing room.
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This is it... a sort of a combination sewing room and guest room.
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I always wanted a sewing room for me.
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Her mother had used this as a sewing room.
Fiction book (1990) -
Upstairs, two rooms had been added on: a sewing room for my mother and an extra bedroom for me.
Fiction book (1996) -
From the sewing room, my dad steps into the hallway.
Academic text (2009) -
Hearing Aunt Bess in her sewing room, Snow knocked quietly on the door.
Fiction book (1999) -
The sewing room had been "action central" and off-limits to me and Hobbes for months.
Fiction book (1992) -
Rosie was in the sewing room when I returned, sorting fabric into piles according to color.
Fiction book (1993) -
Of course, this is just my sewing room, but I think you'll be as snug in here as two pins in a pin cushion.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a room used for sewing' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'sewing' (the activity/process) with 'room' (an indoor space). This noun–modifier + room pattern is common in English and cross-linguistically (e.g., Spanish 'sala de costura', French 'salle de couture'), so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Sewing room is a simple two-word name: sewing means making clothes with a needle or machine and room means a space in a house. Picture a small space with a sewing machine, fabric and patterns, so it means 'a room where you do sewing'.