sickroom

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Advice about food preparation for "invalids", "convalescents" or "the sickroom" would commonly take up an entire section of cookbooks.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2022

To prevent infected air from seeping out of the sickroom, Fox suggests wedging towels in the gap under the bedroom door.

From Seattle Times • May 26, 2022

Her mother read Hans Christian Andersen stories as a vaporizer sent puffs of yellow steam into the sickroom.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022

During a sickroom visit by Alicia and her mother, Lady Grillyer, the latter suspiciously demands, “ ‘What is the matter with the Baron?’

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2021

Ned and the girls were eight days gone when Maester Luwin came to her one night in Bran's sickroom, carrying a reading lamp and the books of account.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin