单词 | dressing room |
释义 | dressing roomn. 1. A private room in a house used for storing and putting on clothes, applying make-up, arranging one's hair, etc., usually opening off or connected to a bedroom. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > room for keeping clothes or dressing wardrobec1440 garderobe?c1450 vestiaryc1450 vestuaryc1490 vestry1574 guarda-roba1602 dressing room1659 robe chamber1665 tire-room1681 robes-roomc1689 apodyteriuma1695 robing room1712 attiring-room1756 toilet1790 toilet chamber1798 toilet room1800 changing room1841 dressing shed1845 change room1886 1659 J. Waterhouse Let. 2 Apr. in H. Cromwell Corr. (2007) 494 Your lordship ledd your ladye into your dressing roome, where your excellencye had left mee bemoaning my sad condition. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1683 (1955) IV. 343 The Dutchesse of Portsmouths dressing roome, within her bed-chamber. 1749 L. Pilkington Mem. (new ed.) I. 196 His Dressing-Room..opened to the Garden. 1781 H. L. Thrale Let. 12 Sept. in F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) 355 Dick..rides out with my Master; & his Mamma & I look at them out of the Dressing Room Window. 1803 H. Repton Observ. Landscape Gardening xii. 178 The present dressing-room..added to each modern bed-room. 1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. xxii. 172 I call it my dressing-room because in that way I can keep people out of it, but I have my brushes and soap in a little closet there, and my clothes,—my clothes are everywhere. 1897 F. S. Roberts Forty-one Years in India 383 I got up, went downstairs, and, taking the telegram from the man, brought it up to my dressing-room, and opened it. 1955 D. Eden Darling Clementine viii. 80 It hadn't been Nurse Ellen because tonight she was sleeping in her bed in the dressing-room next door. 1977 Princeton Alumni Weekly 9 May 2 A master suite with huge dressing room. 2015 Wentworth Courier (Sydney) (Nexis) 3 June 45 He said dressing rooms were now the must have item for luxury homes. 2. a. A changing room at a public venue; spec. a room at a sports ground or performance venue set aside for actors, performers, or competitors to use before and after a performance or game, for preparing, changing clothes, etc. ΚΠ 1761 B. Victor Hist. Theatres London & Dublin I. 123 The young Gentleman..was taken up for..the Mischief done at the Theatre in the Dressing-Rooms and Wardrobe. 1805 D. Hughson London I. 582 His Danish majesty went in a private manner to the theatre.., and afterwards robed himself in masquerade in one of the dressing rooms. 1871 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues I. 187 I was..sitting alone in the dressing-room of the Lyceum. 1886 Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches 2 92 You should have seen him in the pavilion dressing-room afterwards, black and blue all the way down his right side from riding off. 1902 Auckland Star 16 Sept. 5/7 A fire occurred this morning in the dressing-room of the North Shore Cricket Club. 1910 F. Tousey Bradys & Ruby Bug 20 It was fitted up as a ladies' dressing room, with every appliance. From hooks along the walls, several dresses of white muslin hung. 1986 Washington Post 25 Feb. (Style section) c11/1 The band's dressing room was such a recreational drug center that it became known..as ‘the departure lounge’. 2013 P. Simpson & U. Hesse Who invented Stepover? 207 The Rangers players trudged back to the dressing room in dejection. b. Sport. The members of a sports team collectively.Typically used with reference to the opinions or feelings of the team. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > player or sportsperson > [noun] > team or group side1545 team1834 active list1880 squad1902 active roster1915 pool1936 équipe1937 outfit1940 circus1958 dressing room1985 1985 Toronto Star 27 Oct. (Sports section) e3/5 Maloney attempted to lighten the mood of the dressing room between the second and third periods. 1993 Observer 10 Oct. 18/2 A player..said Brady had ‘lost the dressing room and when that goes, everything goes’. 2011 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 20 July (Sport section) 58 Kompany is already City's captain in everything but name and is seen by the club and the players as the voice of the dressing room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1659 |
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