tiring-roomn.
/ˈtʌɪərɪŋruːm/ A dressing-room (archaic); spec. the dressing-room of a theatre. Also transferred and figurative.
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1623 J. Mabbe in W. Shakespeare Comedies, Hist. & Trag. sig. A6 From the Worlds-Stage, to the Graues-Tyring-roome.
a1639 H. Wotton Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 539 Mans life's a Tragedy. His mothers womb (From which he enters) is the tyring room.
1656 R. Fletcher Poems in Ex Otio Negotium 208 The Stars are all withdrawn from each glad Sphear Within the tyring-rooms of heaven.
1666 S. Pepys Diary 19 Mar. (1972) VII. 76 But my business here was to see the inside of the Stage and all the tiring roomes and Machines.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. xii. i. 181 After the play, I..found her in the tyring-room, talking to some gentlemen.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) vi. 59 Then converting the parlour, for the nonce, into a private tiring room, she dressed her.
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