box room

nounBritish.

a storage room, especially one for trunks, suitcases, etc.

Origin of box room

First recorded in 1925–30

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How to use box room in a sentence

That night Hildebrand secretly slept in the boxroom, on a pile of newspapers, with a rag-bag and a hearthrug over him.
Oswald Bastable and Others | Edith Nesbit
Looking out of the boxroom window was like looking down on the top of a green forest, Phyllis always thought.
Oswald Bastable and Others | Edith Nesbit
Within was a pitch-dark cupboard-like boxroom, hot, stuffy, and smelling of dust and old leather.
Crome Yellow | Aldous Huxley

British Dictionary definitions for boxroom

boxroom

/ (ˈbɒksˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /

noun

a small room or large cupboard in which boxes, cases, etc, may be stored

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