Citations:room

sense: absence of a person (?)

 * 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 110:
 * I turned and went on out [of the presence of Mrs. Barstow and Miss Barstow in the Barstows' sun-room], figuring that Miss Barstow could use my room for a while.