red room

English

Noun

red room (plural red rooms)

1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red,‎ room.

   The kids' party venue had three play spaces: the red room, the blue room and the yellow room.

2. A torture chamber.
   • 1910, James Paul Kelly, Prince Izon: A Romance of the Grand Canyon, page 329:

     When the huge figure, brought to bay, turned to face them he fought madly, desperately, bellowing forth his anguished defiance all the while, and it took the help of the guards of the red room to overpower him and carry him away in spite of the weakening tortures to which he had been subjected.

   • 1998, Anthony O'Hear, Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Mind, page 27:

     A repressed memory of torture in a red room could in principle be a phenomenally vivid image; what makes it unconscious in the Freudian sense is that it comes out in dreams, slips, fleeing from red rooms and the like rather than directly controlling behavior.

   • 2014, Kris Calvert, Sex, Lies & Lipstick:

     "There's a door hidden in that knotty pine wall over there that leads to his red room of pain and submission,” she jeered.

   • 2015, Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient, Movie Migrations:

     One day he is kidnapped by the police, imprisoned in the red room, and tortured.

   • 2022, Blitz Bazawule, The Scent of Burnt Flowers:

     This was the second night he had visited the red room, and no matter how much they beat and tortured him, Agent Hughes had no idea how Kwesi had vanished without a trace.

3. (Internet) A (possibly mythical) online forum where livestreams or videos of torture and murder can be viewed over the dark web.
   • 2017, Tim Owen, Wayne Noble, Faye Christabel Speed, New Perspectives on Cybercrime, page 244:

     In fact some fake 'red rooms' on the Dark Web use scenes from mainstream horror films to deceive viewers into believing that they are attempting to access extreme content.

   • 2020, Sayam Pradhan, The Darkest Web: The Dark side of the internet:

     In the red room, the people are cut into pieces and shown live on red room.

   • 2022, Thomas J. Holt, Adam M. Bossler, Kathryn C. Seigfried-Spellar, Cybercrime and Digital Forensics:

     The plot centers around the player accessing the Dark Web to find a red room, where someone is streaming the live torture of a person. The player must examine the code of various websites in the game to determine the URL of the red room, while avoiding having their computer hacked or being kidnapped by online enemy (Hospodar, 2021).

   • 2022, Sunny Makadiya, Aurora, page 139:

     Join the red room to watch torture, murder and gory content on a live stream.

   • 2022, Jason Whittaker, Elizabeth Potter, Bodies, Noise and Power in Industrial Music, page 62:

     The song is set in a "red room," a likely fiction, urban legend space of torture and death. Being urban legend, details can differ, but consistent within the mythos of the “red room” is its existence on the “deep web” and crowd involvement—likely with a monetary cost—to decide how the person will be tortured and killed.

   • 2022, Meredith Spies, In the Spirit:

     It's...very strong evidence that they were involved in what looks to be some dark web red room shit.”

   • 2023, Atif Ali, Muhammad Qasim, Dark World: A Book on the Deep Dark Web, pages 4-39:

     A "myth," an "urban legend," is exactly what everyone who hasn't been on the deep web will tell you about red rooms.

   • 2023, Will Dean, The Last One, page 324:

     A red room is something that exists on the dark web. It's where anonymous individuals pay significant sums to watch someone die in real time.

   • 2023, Rajat Dey, Dr. Panem Charanarur, Dr. G. Srinivasa Rao, Developing a hacker's mindset, page iv:

     One night, at around 1 am, I decided to visit the dark web. Interestingly, I came across some online shopping websites, and I received a message from someone that contained a link to a red room.

4. A room primarily used for sex, often a sex dungeon or a room used by a prostitute.
   • 2018, Amanda Cummings, How I cuckolded My Husband:

     He was chained up to the cross that hung against the wall of the 'red room'. It was actually a dungeon, with the aforementioned cross, complete with restraints, hanging from one of the padded red walls. On the floor was a fuck horse, various whips and paddles, and of course the swing.

   • 2020, Spices of Lust, The eBook of Kinky Sex Ideas, page 110:

     This, you did not expect to see. A full, complete, total 50 Shade of Grey red room with a St. Andrews cross, floggers, whips, cuffs, and loads of other things you've never seen, but are immediately interested in.

   • 2021, Julia Gabriel, Anything for Her:

     "Now you're making me worried. Please tell me you don't have a red room.” “What's a red room?” “You know, a playroom. A sex playroom.”

5. A VIP room.
   • 1999, Curtis Rayford, Black Jack, page 19:

     If the red room is playing host to the high-rollers you would have to have a VIP card to get in.

   • 2007, Fernando Gayesky, Elizabeth Gorman, Kristin Luna, MTV Spain:

     At night, resident DJs and international guests the caliber of Peter Kruder have everybody shakin' their booties in the well-preserved Art Deco hall or at the "red room" upstairs.

   • 2011, David Benioff, The 25th Hour:

     The red room is growing crowded. Jakob does not recognize any of them pushing through the velvet curtain, these loud-speaking men holding champagne flutes in ringed fists, lean women who stand in clusters, heads bowed together, murmuring in low tones.

   • 2014 December 28, Francis Doku, “Vodafone and music, great bedfellows”, in Graphic Showbiz, number 955, page 23:

     My best part of the revamped music awards festival was the introduction of the red room.

   • 2018, J.E. Taylor, Angel Heart:

     I sat in what they referred to as the red room, with Jennifer.

6. (politics) The legislative chamber of the upper house in a bicameral parliament.

   Synonyms: red chamber, Red Room, Red Chamber

   • 1992, Quebec, page 197:

     The Chamber of the Legislative Assembly (formerly red room) , similar in size and decor to the blue room, was used by the Legislative Council until it was abolished in 1968.

   • 1998, Canada. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Debates of the House of Commons, page 5008:

     On a number of occasions the Canadian flag was displayed in the National Assembly's red room; there were other occasions when it was not .

   • 2022, Victor Stater, Hoax: The Popish Plot that Never was, page 47:

     Towards the end of the interview, Kirkby frantically signalled Israel — the duke of York was approaching down the Privy Gallery that led to the 'red room'.

Translations

French

Etymology

From English red room.

Noun

red room m (plural reds rooms)

1. (Internet) red room

   Synonyms: Red Room, Red room, chambre rouge, Chambre rouge, Chambre Rouge

   Coordinate terms: dark web, Dark web, Dark Web, deep web, Deep web, Deep Web, Internet, internet, web, Web