muniment room

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noun British.

a storage or display room in a castle, church, university, or the like, where pertinent historical documents and records are kept.

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Origin of muniment room

First recorded in 1655–65

Words nearby muniment room

municipality, municipalize, munificence, munificent, muniment, muniment room, muniments, Munin, munite, munition, munition armor

How to use muniment room in a sentence

The upper part above the porch proper contains, as mentioned above, a lofty chamber, probably originally the muniment-room.
Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory|Thomas Perkins
The instance is taken from a map of the manor of Edgeware now in the All Souls muniment room.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century|Richard Henry Tawney
These marks were noted in a variety of documents, belonging to the Corporation, one preserved in their muniment room.
A Comprehensive History of Norwich|A. D. Bayne
Chatterton pretended to have found these among the contents of an old chest in the muniment room of St. Mary Redcliff's.
From Chaucer to Tennyson|Henry A. Beers

The upper storey, which until recently was used as the muniment room, was originally the chapel of St. Chad's Head.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield|A. B. Clifton