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showroom|ˈʃəʊruːm|
[f. show n.1]
1. A room used for the display of goods or merchandise.
1616R. Cocks Diary 2 Jan. (Hakl. Soc.) 95 To keepe the shopp or shew rowme. 1617Ibid. 23 July 283 We delivered divers sortes merchandiz to Jno. Japon to sell in the shopp or shew roome over the way. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. x, Madame Mantalini's showrooms were on the first floor. 1879F. W. Robinson Coward Consc. ii. xxi, From the busy workshops into the great show-room.
fig.1829Carlyle Misc., Voltaire (1840) II. 163 Voltaire's knowledge is not a mere show-room of curiosities, but truly a museum for purposes of teaching. 1833H. Coleridge Biogr. Bor. Introd. 6 It..is deposited in the shew-room of the memory.
†2. A room in which a show is exhibited. Obs.
c1714Arbuthnot etc. Mem. M. Scribl. i. xiv. (1741) 51 The Dwarf who kept the gates of the Show-room.
3. pl. The rooms in a large mansion which are regularly shown to visitors. Occas. in sing.
1820T. Creevey Let. 23 Jan. in J. Gore Creevey (1948) xiii. 179 She is like one of her numerous gold and silver musical dickey birds, that are in all the show rooms of this house. 1820D. Wordsworth Jrnl. 29 Sept. (1941) II. 322 Having paced through every show-room of the palace, we surveyed again the exterior. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home, Near Oxford II. 12 We were guided through the show-rooms [at Blenheim] by a very civil person. |