"blue room" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blue rooms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue room (plural blue rooms)
  1. In cinema, a room with blue (or occasionally green) walls in which effects shots are filmed. Categories (topical): Rooms Related terms: green room
    Sense id: en-blue_room-en-noun-55wFo3zf Disambiguation of Rooms: 57 43 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 74 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 68 32 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 75 25
  2. (aviation, slang) The toilet/washroom on a passenger aircraft. Tags: slang Categories (topical): Aviation
    Sense id: en-blue_room-en-noun-Vme5dDYo Topics: aeronautics, aerospace, aviation, business, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences

Inflected forms

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