ˈtiring-house Obs. or arch.
Also 6– tyring-.
[f. tiring vbl. n.3 + house.]
A dressing-room; esp. the room or place in which the actors dressed for the stage; = tiring-room.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iii. i. 4 This greene plot shall be our stage, this hauthorne brake our tyring house. 1612 Raleigh Poems (1870) xviii. 29 Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be, Where we are dressed for life's short comedy. 1620 Melton Astrolog. 31 While Drummers make Thunder in the Tyring-house. 1639 Fuller Holy War iv. vii. (1840) 189 That actor who cometh off with the dislike of the spectators stealeth as invisibly as he may into the tiring-house. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. v. 877 Dying, to the Rational or Humane Soul, is nothing but a withdrawing into the Tyring-house, and putting off the Cloathing of this terrestrial Body. 1908 Q. Rev. Apr. 453 He runs his lateral curtains back to the tyring-house wall. |