| 单词 | sample room |
| 释义 | > as lemmassample room sample room n. (a) a room in which samples are kept for inspection; and (b) U.S. slang, a place where liquor is sold by the glass. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > workshop > [noun] > room where samples are kept sample room1865 the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar tapstryc1460 ale stand1588 tap1725 bar-room1797 taproom1807 estaminet1814 saloon1841 sample room1865 cantina1892 mahogany1896 beverage room1936 spit and sawdust1937 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > rooms at front of shop > other rooms in shop sample room1865 fitting-room1909 1865 G. A. Sala My Diary in Amer. II. 46 Sometimes the bar is at the side, screened off, and genteelly disguised under the name of ‘sample room’. You enter ostensibly to purchase cherries, and immediately ‘put yourself outside’ a ‘tot’ of Bourbon. 1869 W. H. Brewer Rocky Mt. Lett. (1930) 10 ‘Saloons’, ‘bar-rooms’, ‘sample-rooms’, ‘liquor stores’, ‘lager beer’, etc., furnish most of the signs on the places of business. 1874 T. B. Aldrich Prudence Palfrey xv. 297 Colonel Todhunter..had been refreshing himself at the sample-room attached to Odiorne's grocery. 1887 Grip (Toronto) 21 May 10/2 One of the drug travellers insisted..that the clerk..had, in the north sample room, first nicknamed Albendis ‘Chippy’. 1892 Hist. Rev. York County (Pa.) 62/1 To the side is the reading and sample-rooms for the commercial traveler. 1895 Daily News 5 Dec. 5/1 Commercial institutions, of which inquiry offices, museums, and sample rooms..should form a leading feature. < as lemmas |
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