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单词 rubber room
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rubber room
rubber room n. (a) a room used for the production, storage, or sale of rubber or rubber goods; (b) = padded cell n. 1.
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rubber room1844
padded room1846
padded cell1862
pad1938
quiet room1938
1844 Bradford Observer 17 Oct. 1/5 That other Mill or Factory..used and occupied by him as Rubber Rooms, Card Setting Rooms, and for other purposes.
1890 Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago) 10 Mar. 1/7 The flames..spread at once to the rubber-room, where the American Rubber Company had $3,000 worth of stock.
1938 S. Beckett Murphy 167 The padded cells, known to the wittier as the ‘quiet rooms’, ‘rubber rooms’ or, in a notable clip ‘pads’.
1988 Working Mother Jan. 72/3 I was supposed to be the equivalent of the rubber room in a mental hospital, against whose walls my children could fling themselves without getting hurt.
1992 Sunday Oregonian (Portland, Oregon) (Nexis) 9 Aug. 1 A rubber-room fire killed one worker last year.
2001 S. T. Asma Stuffed Animals & Pickled Heads (Acknowl.) p. ix If not for my family, this project would have had me in the rubber room many times.
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