ˈlodging-room
† a. nonce-use. Space in which to dwell. b. A sleeping apartment, bedroom. (Now local.)
| 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xlvii. 4. 183 If after the bringing of the Ark into the Temple, there had appered none other hygher truth: it had bin but as a chyldish toy to lodge vp god in that narrow lodging roome [L. in angusto illo domicilio Deum locari]. 1615 Manch. Crt. Leet Rec. (1885) II. 300 One Chamb{supr} or lodginge Roome. 1694 Dryden Love Triumph. iv. i. 65 The Lodging Rooms are furnisht with Loam: and bare Mattresses are the Beds. 1722 De Foe Col. Jack (1840) 257 She..bade her speak to the innkeeper to show her to her lodging-room. 1800 Dor. Wordsw. Let. 10 Sept. in Lee Life (1886) 66 We have one lodging-room, with two single beds. 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Builder 438 Mezzanines..are exceedingly convenient for servants, lodging-rooms, powdering-rooms, wardrobes &c. 1849 Ex. Doc. 31st U.S. Congress 1 Sess. House No. 5. ii. 1089 One hewed-log lodging-room for hired men. 1906 Springfield (Mass.) Republ. 7 Feb. 2 Lodging Rooms to Let. |
| attrib. 1885 Sheffield Telegr. 20 June, Lodging-room furniture.—Mahogany Dressing Table [etc.]. |