tiring-housen.
Obsolete or archaic.
A dressing-room; esp. the room or place in which the actors dressed for the stage; = tiring-room n.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. i. 4 This greene plot shall be our stage, this hauthorne brake our tyring house.
1612 W. Raleigh in O. Gibbons First Set Madrigals & Mottets sig. Cv Our mothers wombes the tyring houses be, Where we are drest for this short Comedy.
1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 31 While Drummers make Thunder in the Tyring-house.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iv. vii. 180 That actour who cometh off with the dislike of the spectatours, stealeth as invisibly as he may into the tiring-house.
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 877 Dying, to the Rational or Humane Soul, is nothing but a withdrawing into the Tyring-house, and putting off the Clothing of this Terrestrial Body.
1908 Q. Rev. Apr. 453 He runs his lateral curtains back to the tyring-house wall.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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