单词 | paint room |
释义 | > as lemmaspaint room paint room n. (a) a room in which paints are stored; (b) Theatre a room in a theatre in which the scene-painter works; (c) a place in which manufactured items are painted. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > painting > [noun] > where paints are stored paint room1850 1850 H. Melville White-jacket xxix. 146 How often I supplicated the inexorable Brush, captain of the paint-room, for just one brushful of his invaluable pigment. 1888 Scribner's Mag. Oct. 438/1 The floor of the paint-room is a platform called the paint-bridge, which extends across the stage and can be raised or lowered. 1906 U. Sinclair Jungle xxvi. 326 But here, in a ‘paint room’..a room without a single window and only one door, a hundred men were crowded upon mattresses on the floor. 2003 Argus Leader (Sioux Falls, S. Dakota) (Nexis) 6 Mar. 2 b Bill Doyle, co-owner of the building, said it is used as a preparation and paint room for Diamond Mowers. < as lemmas |
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