throneroom

See also: throne-room, and throne room

English

Etymology

From throne +‎ room.

Noun

throneroom (plural thronerooms)

1. A room in a palace in which the throne is situated
   • 1968, Antioch Review, volume 27, page 403:

     Thrones, chairs, tables, beds, ropes, carts, and guns appear in lightning speed to transform the stage into battlefields, bedrooms and thronerooms, into roads, docks, and taverns.

   • 2005, Mark Norris, The Dark Forest, page 91:

     Suddenly before them shone a throneroom of sparkling diamond, emerald, and transparent gold that overlooked a gleaming, golden altar fuming with smoke. Before it burned four flames that moved back and forth, then the vision vanished.

   • 2010, Irene Winter, On Art in the Ancient Near East, page 8:

     In its totality, the throneroom represents a complex play between convention and innovation in the sequence of ancient Mesopotamian art up to that point.