rumpus room

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Goodell hosted the event from his Westchester home, in what looked to be a stately rumpus room.

From Slate • Apr. 23, 2020

A businessman-cave for the after-work crowd, Fishbowl is a retro-style rumpus room carved into the basement of the Dream Midtown hotel.

From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2016

The mix could also be enjoyed in the Club House, a dancing area with a faux fireplace, plaid wallpaper and kitschy décor of a midcentury rumpus room.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2012

To Tad and Willie, the Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer of the Lincoln family, the White House was a huge rumpus room.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then she looked into the very last place there was to look— which was the rumpus room.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut