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boxroom

British  
/ ˈbɒksˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

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

"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

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I will nod quietly when asked about an IT problem I will take Erskine’s advice and learn to laugh at myself, and the fact that it costs $$$ to rent an outer city boxroom.

From The Guardian Oct. 13, 2015

I used all the cottonwool, then finding there was not enough to wrap up the vase properly, I fetched some more which was in a large boxroom on the same first floor.

From My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

Then came the exciting afternoon when the boxes were carried down from the boxroom and everybody set to work to pack, with the help of the monitresses and Miss Coleman.

From The Third Class at Miss Kaye's A School Story by Angela Brazil

She knew very well that the children would be far less troublesome if they had a place to themselves, and she said, 'Well, Val, you shall have the boxroom in the attics.

From Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Within was a pitch-dark cupboard-like boxroom, hot, stuffy, and smelling of dust and old leather.

From Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley

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