"keeping room" meaning in English

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          "text": "The keeping room became less utilitarian as kitchens, storage area, and bedrooms were added onto homes.",
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          "text": "The keeping room, with its large, open-hearth fireplace, served as her kitchen and main living area.",
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          "text": "The keeping room, where most of the cooking and living was once done, has five doors: one on either side of the fireplace, opening into each of the front parlors, one to a borning room on the west, one to a weaving room on the east, and one to a summer kitchen in back.",
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