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

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Example Sentences

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tiring room

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

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

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

“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

And she was amused still more, when later in the day, after luncheon, Mrs. Sandford arrived, and was taken up into the tiring room, as Preston called it.

From Melbourne House by Susan Warner

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

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