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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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The Finnish virtuoso thought he was in a piano wareroom.

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

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 William Chambers

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 Joseph Cottle

The spellin' school is schedjooled for the r'ar wareroom of the Noo York store, whar the Stranglers convenes.

From Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories by W. Herbert Dunton

The station was the top of a sort of wareroom for all kinds of railroad junk.

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman

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