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wareroom

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

noun

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


Etymology

Origin of wareroom

First recorded in 1805–15; ware 1 + room

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Every member of the public must feel that his clothes will be as good, coming from a wareroom on a third floor at L.30 a year, as from a flashy corner shop which costs L.300.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 445 Volume 18, New Series, July 10, 1852 by Chambers, William

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

One workman sews the sacks up and another wheels them to the wareroom.

From How We are Fed A Geographical Reader by Chamberlain, James Franklin

They knew how full the wareroom kept all the time.

From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

Anxiously he pressed the salesman to tell him which of us used cars in the wareroom was the slowest and safest.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various

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