loungeroom

From lounge +‎ room.

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loungeroom (plural loungerooms)

2. (Australia) Synonym of lounge (“room in a house for relaxation”).

   Alternative form: lounge room

   • 2000, Victorian Supreme Court, Council of Law Reporting in Victoria, Victorian Reports, Volume 1, page 8,

     The bystanders had entered in two groups of three via the Main Street entrance which led into the loungeroom.

   • 2002, Greg Gow, The Oromo in Exile: From the Horn of Africa to the Suburbs of Australia, page 25:

     One day while visiting Semira and Ahmed I commented on the Oromo pictures and artefacts displayed in their loungeroom.

   • 2009 March 14, Wayne Flower, “Elderly woman seriously injured when ute smashes into house”, in Herald Sun‎^[1], archived from the original on 15 March 2009:

     The ute slammed into the 78-year-old’s Cheltenham home just after midnight, crashing through the front fence into her loungeroom and pinning her underneath.

   • 2011, Gotye, “State of the Art”, in Making Mirrors‎^[2], performed by Gotye:

     When the Cotillion arrived, we threw out the television
     Model D-575 has custom flute presets and Harmony Plus in addition
     Now for an arm and a leg we get three half-dozen beats to choose from
     So now we can pretend that there's an orchestra in the loungeroom
     […]
     State, state, state, state of the art
     (State of the art)
     Hold the phone, it's so state, state, state, state of the art
     (Computer-controlled tone color)
     State, state, state, state of the art
     (The marriage of music and computers is quite natural)
     Oh my God, it's so state, state, state, state of the art
     (It is time to hear the result)