sample room
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of sample room
An Americanism dating back to 1860–65
Example Sentences
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“I slept in the sample room for a week.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2023
Around 2017, Wilkinson Schor started sneaking off during her lunch breaks and after work to visit a sample room in Manhattan’s garment district.
From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2021
My last stop in Agordo was Luxottica’s sample room, a broad, quiet, carpeted space looking out over the river.
From The Guardian ● May 10, 2018
For the past five years his headquarters has been Dallas, where he lives alone in a small, painting-filled house with a backyard garden that serves as his sample room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Do you know, I never had in my sample room a finer man.
From Tales of the Road by Charles N. (Charles Newman) Crewdson
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