On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 18:19, Steve Doerr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 1:14 PM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 08:46, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > >> amenity=mourning_room >>> >> >> Unacceptable. "Mourning room" was the old name for what is now >> known as a "living room" (and was also known as a "parlour"), A >> room in somebody's house which was pressed into use for the >> display of a corpse when needed. >> >> > I think you'll find that's a 'morning room', defined by the OED as 'a room > used as a sitting room during the morning or early part of the day'. > Those existed too, if you were rich enough to have a very large house and could move from room to room to follow the sun. For most people, there was only one sitting room which also served as a place to put a corpse. I thought I gave a link explaining this. -- Paul
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