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elbowroom

[el-boh-room, -room] / ˈɛl boʊˌrum, -ˌrʊm /








NOUN
sea room
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Notable improvements over the 42 include a roomier wheelhouse with an updated electronics panel, more elbowroom in the master stateroom forward, more space on the flybridge and a longer boat deck.

From Time Magazine Archive

He felt cramped in his constitutional compartment of powers, looked for elbowroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the other hand, the Bolshoi Swan Lake provided the soloists with more elbowroom to stitch figures of gaudy and often moving brilliance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas.

From Time Magazine Archive

All the same, I’m free to admit that I haven’t quite the elbowroom I need.”

From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes


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