lumber room
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of lumber room
First recorded in 1735–45
Example Sentences
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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
He determined to take it down, and stow it away in the lumber room.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
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