What does keeping-room mean?

keeping-room

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Frequency: 4.73 in modern English

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"At the same moment Pearl Goclet turned her fair head and saw a man standing on the threshold of the old keeping-room, gazing in at her."
"She would come swinging into the "keeping-room" in cold weather, leaving the door wide open with the selfish indifference of a cat, to stretch her great bulk before the fire."
"Now they have settled in at the far end of the keeping-room."

keeping-rooms (plural)

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