On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 at 18:56, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not able to find any website which clearly talks about a specific > "mourning room", though it is certainly documented that the front room of a > house, often known as a "parlour" at the time, would be used to view the > corpse of a deceased family member. > https://www.vintag.es/2018/01/living-room-what-we-call-today-was.html https://blogsurabhi.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/what-is-the-origin-of-the-term-living-room/ Those two aren't entirely independent but each provides details the other omits. > > Do you have a link? Do you think that anyone in the 2000s is likely to be > confused by the term amenity=mourning_room? > I haven't encountered anyone using it but then I've rarely been in a situation where such a room was discussed. When I search for "mourning room" with google i get a few links to pages actually using the term and a lot of links to pages about living rooms, sitting rooms and parlours. Nothing for chapels of rest (or whatever we end up calling them), just rooms in private houses. Google search results are personalized, but I can't think of any reason it would be giving me these particular results. So it appears that google still thinks a mourning room is a room in a private house. -- Paul
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