lumber room

American  

noun

British.

1. a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.

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Etymology

Origin of lumber room

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

It is rather surprising to find that so much material that has seen service before is still worthy to be taken from the lumber room.

From Time Magazine Archive

This nonsense I have been carrying around with me in the lumber room of my mind for 40 years.

From Time Magazine Archive

“No. No, I don’t think they were. They were scattered about the house. The chairs were in a lumber room, I believe.”

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

"I think he went to heaven, where he found better pictures than were ever fished out of that old lumber room."

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

The upper story of the barn was the confused mass of objects that the lumber room of any large household inevitably collects.

From Out of the Air by Gillmore, Inez Haynes