tiring room

American  

noun

Archaic.

1. a dressing room, especially in a theater.

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tiring room British  

noun

1. archaic a dressing room in a theatre

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Etymology

Origin of tiring room

First recorded in 1615–25; aphetic variant of attiring room

Example Sentences

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tiring room

I shall once again make use of the little room next the partners' office as a bedroom or rather, "tiring" room, where I can if necessary effect changes of costume.

From Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston

The chapel of holy St. Madox is no tiring room for jugglers and strollers to shift their trappings in.

From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott

My fine lady has driven black Juba from the tiring room of the Empress.

From Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs by William Henry Withrow

“Withdraw, Francis, to the tiring room, and don these habiliments,” commanded her father.

From In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls by Clyde Osmer De Land

Let those dark slaughter-houses burst upon our sight, These kitchens are too clean, too near the tiring room!

From Collected Poems Volume Two by Alfred Noyes