‖sitkamer, noun

/ˈsətkaːmə(r)/
Forms:
sit-kaamer, sitkomerShow more Formerly also sit-kaamer, sitkomer, zit-kamer.
Origin:
AfrikaansShow more Afrikaans (earlier zitkamer), sit sit + kamer room, chamber.
A sitting room, living room, or parlour; a public lounge.
1902 ‘Intelligence Officer’ On Heels of De Wet 88Those cushions you have on your front seat came out of the Nieuwjaarsfontein sitkomer [sic].
1904 Argus Christmas Annual (Orange River Colony Sect.) 12He saw his mother standing at the door of the zitkamer...He went through the empty kitchen to the zitkamer, empty too.
1908 F.C. Slater Sunburnt South 12The room into which he showed me was the zit-kamer or sitting-room; it was scrupulously neat and tidy.
1909 F. Masey in State Vol.2 No.7, 67In the ‘zitkamer’,..there stands that commonly met feature the curio cabinet.
1912 F. Bancroft Veldt Dwellers 31It was smoke-room, bar room, and general zit-kamer combined.
1927 F.C. Slater in Outspan 1 Apr. 5The room into which he showed me was the zit-kamer or sitting-room; it was scrupulously neat and tidy.
1929 J.G. Van Alphen Jan Venter 249The sitkamer was packed with visitors. Coffee flowed.
1935 P. Smith Platkops Children 84The sit-kamer is so beautiful you know, that Ou-ma Carel never lets the sun shine in it except for a little on Sundays.
1955 W. Robertson Blue Wagon 3Van Zyl and John..entered the sit-kamer, as the general living-room of the place was called.
1956 A.G. McRae Hill of Doves 422‘Good Heavens! are you psychic or something?’ Anne grinned ‘Yah! That’s us. Spooks in the sitkamer, spirits on our spoors.’
1964 J. Meintjes Manor House 7We entered a lounge on the right, the sitkamer — a large room with high ceiling on beams.
1964 M.G. McCoy Informant, Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), Eastern CapeIt’ll make a lovely family room — keep my sitkamer tidy, for a change.
1971 J.A. Brown Return 79The door of the cuckoo clock in the sitkamer banged in and out.
A sitting room, living room, or parlour; a public lounge.
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sit, verb intransitivev.situation, nounn.
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