composing room

American  

noun

1. a room in which compositors work in a printing establishment.

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composing room British  

noun

1. the room in a printing establishment in which type is set

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Etymology

Origin of composing room

First recorded in 1730–40

Example Sentences

We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.

From Los Angeles Times

A separate elevator in their home took him directly from his library to his composing room; he did not have to walk through the main rooms and see her purchases.

From New York Times

One of those pages — called “takes” — would be scrolled up in a canister and sent via pneumatic tubes to the composing room.

From Washington Post

At four thirty, all the copy would go to the composing room, where the text was set into lead type for the printing presses in the basement.

From Literature

After Monical was honorably discharged in 1958, he returned to Bloomington-Normal and, in 1960, began a 40-year career at The Pantagraph, working in the composing room, assembling ads and the articles.

From Washington Times