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saleroom

American  
[sayl-room, -room] / ˈseɪlˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

  1. Chiefly British. salesroom.


saleroom British  
/ ˈseɪlˌruːm, -ˌrʊm /

noun

  1. a room where objects are displayed for sale, esp by auction

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The auction will take place from 10:00 GMT on Thursday at the Rogers Jones Cardiff saleroom.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

An unidentified man in Sotheby’s saleroom won Rembrandt’s subsequent, more accurate depiction of a lion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

Rahul Kadakia, Christie's international director of jewelry who conducted the auction, told the Geneva saleroom that the bracelets had stayed in the family for almost 200 years.

From Reuters ● Nov. 9, 2021

“When ‘Girl With Balloon’ ‘self-destructed’ in our saleroom, Banksy sparked a global sensation that has since become a cultural phenomenon.”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 3, 2021

Some further instalments occurred at another saleroom a few months later; and perhaps there is yet more to come.

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt

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