wareroom

American  

[wair-room, -room] / ˈwɛərˌrum, -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. a room in which goods are stored or are displayed for sale.

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Etymology

Origin of wareroom

First recorded in 1805–15; ware ¹ + room

Example Sentences

He stumbled along to a corner of the wareroom where he slumped on a keg of nails.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

He glanced toward the wareroom where the black coffins stood in a row on wooden horses.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

Then I’ll partition off that wareroom and rent it out for offices and so forth.

From Gold by White, Stewart Edward

He ate his lunch, of butterless bread and sausage, and an entire five-cent pie, in a piano wareroom, taking great bites, with dreamy studying of the walls and long delays between.

From The Story of Julia Page by Norris, Kathleen Thompson

It may be lying at this moment in some custom-house wareroom, waiting for the payment of the duty!

From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Cottle, Joseph