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tiring room

American  

noun

Archaic.
  1. a dressing room, especially in a theater.


tiring room British  

noun

  1. archaic a dressing room in a theatre

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tiring room

First recorded in 1615–25; aphetic variant of attiring room

Example Sentences

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The chapel of holy St. Madox is no tiring room for jugglers and strollers to shift their trappings in.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Scott, Walter, Sir

And she was amused still more, when later in the day, after luncheon, Mrs. Sandford arrived, and was taken up into the tiring room, as Preston called it.

From Melbourne House by Warner, Susan

Let those dark slaughter-houses burst upon our sight, These kitchens are too clean, too near the tiring room!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Noyes, Alfred

And she was amused still more, when later in the day, after luncheon, Mrs. Sandford arrived and was taken up into the tiring room, as Preston called it.

From Melbourne House, Volume 2 by Warner, Susan

My fine lady has driven black Juba from the tiring room of the Empress.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by Withrow, William Henry