单词 | subscription room |
释义 | > as lemmassubscription room subscription room n. a room reserved for the use of subscribers (in a gentlemen's club, a stock exchange, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > private or inner room > in a club or hotel subscription room1754 private room1797 1754 Public Advertiser 29 Mar. Macklin's Subscription Room will be open'd To-morrow, at Seven o'Clock in the Evening. 1784 J. Hartley Hist. Westm. Election 330 Committees and Sub-committees are now sitting in every corner of the Liberty of Westminster, from the Subscription-rooms in St. James's to the Divers Kens in St. Giles's. 1812 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1818) III. 171 The innocent amusement..deserving of all praise as a preventive substitute for the stall, the kennel, and the subscription-room. 1914 Daily Tel. 3 Aug. 5/1 The subscription-room of the Corn Exchange will..be open for the convenience of members. 2008 L. Carlyle Never romance Rake vii. 201 Rothewell..found his friends in the Jockey Club's subscription room poring over the descriptions of the horses to be auctioned that day. < as lemmas |
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