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The one room in the house designed entirely around not talking to your family.

means A dedicated room built around a billiard table, where people gather ostensibly to play a game of skill with cues and balls.

from From 'billiard,' tracing back through French 'billard' — originally the word for the wooden cue stick itself, from 'bille' meaning a small ball or log of wood. The room name followed naturally once houses grand enough to spare a whole chamber for a table became fashionable, mostly among the wealthy in Europe from around the 1600s onward, as the game moved indoors from its rougher lawn-game ancestors.

victorian status flex
Required a mansion big enough to waste a room
cluedo immortality
Famous mainly for hosting fictional murders
table footprint
Needs five extra feet of clearance for cues
decline cause
Pool halls stole its job and its crowd
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