Boudoir vs Brent - What's the difference?
boudoir | brent |
transferred from the surname, taken to regular use in the 20th century.
A small river of London, which joins the Thames at Brentford.
A borough of North London, created in 1965 from the merger of the boroughs of Wembley and Willesden.
As nouns the difference between boudoir and brent
is that boudoir is a woman's private sitting room, dressing room, or bedroom while brent is .As an adjective brent is
.boudoir
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Usage notes
Strictly refers only to a woman’s room, but sometimes used informally or humorously by men to refer to their inner sanctum, as in (The Big Sleep) (1939), by American writer (Raymond Chandler), where (Philip Marlowe) (the hero, a man) says (p. 53): :“Tut, tut,” I said. “Come into my boudoir .”
