lumber roomn.
/ˈlʌmbə ruːm/, /ˈlʌmbə rʊm/, U.S. /ˈləmbər ˌrum/, /ˈləmbər ˌrʊm/ a. A room for the reception of lumber or disused chattels.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > others
speech-housec1050
watching-chamber1533
music room1608
service room1669
amphitheatre1694
lararium1706
well-room1731
lumber room1740
water room1774
bird room1776
grubbery1791
bookery1798
study1808
service room1833
selamlik1838
serving room1838
social space1851
mail room1856
rumpus room1930
birthing room1936
home office1960
romper room1961
dungeon1969
1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 80 My own little Chapel, which has not been us'd..for any thing but a Lumber-room.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 7 The chaise..Stood in the lumber room.
1884 J. Hatton H. Irving's Impress. Amer. (ed. 2) I. 4 The apartments were lumber-rooms until lately.
b. figurative.
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1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 30 Aug. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1199 Many great readers..make lumber-rooms of their heads.
1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 446 The memory ought to be a store-room. Many turn theirs rather into a lumber-room.
1879 J. A. H. Murray Addr. Philol. Soc. 33 They are included by Lepsius in his provisional lumber-room of ‘Isolated Languages’.
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