Ball-room

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic form of ballroom. alt-of, archaic

    "They were in the ball-room, the violins were playing, and her mind was in a flutter that forbad its fixing on any thing serious."

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"When she entered the ball-room, in her wondrous dress of moon-beams, she looked so lovely, so different from all the other guests, that everyone wondered who she was, and no one could tell where she had come from."

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