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What does the word "Boudoir" mean, is it English?

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This seems like such a no brainer - at first.
The word Boudoir is french. It can refer to woman's dressing room, bedroom, or private sitting room according to the Merriam-Webster dressing room.

What I did not know is that the word boudoir is from the french word bouder, which according to Merriam-Webster means "to pout." Interesting - So I looked it up in my French Oxford Dictionary -- seems the Oxford folk beg to differ.

According to them bouder means: to stay away from or to steer clear of, with a secondary meaning of "to sulk."

I find it interesting that the word for a woman's bedroom is associated with pouting and sulking. I guess we've come along way baby since the word was coined in 1781.

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Sulking, Pouting, women and bedroom is this just a trap for little old me? But it does make sense. After all men made the dictionary based on local words and a new common found spelling.

After all in the Victorian years what else could a woman do if in disagreement with her master then to retire to her quarters. I am even sure even more so back in the day the men would have yucked it up big time saying oh look there she goes again sulking off to her room. She had no other choice! Today the same joke is still often made though a lady might retire so avoid being more childish then her mate in a disagreement. The word valor comes to mind.


perhaps one day it will be bravoir instead.