tiring-room
(ˈtaɪərɪŋruːm)
[f. tiring vbl. n.3 + room.]
A dressing-room (arch.); spec. the dressing-room of a theatre. Also transf. and fig.
| 1623 I. M. Pref. Verse in Shaks. Wks., From the Worlds-Stage, to the Graues-Tyring-roome. a 1639 Wotton De Morte 2 in Reliq. (1651) 539 Mans life's a Tragedy. His mothers womb (From which he enters) is the tyring room. 16.. Fletcher Poems 208 (Nares) The stars are all with⁓drawn from each glad sphear Within the tyring rooms of heaven. 1666 Pepys Diary 19 Mar., But my business here was to see the inside of the stage and all the tiring-rooms and machines. 1749 Smollett Gil Blas xii. i. (1782) IV. 217 After the play I..found her in the tyring-room, talking to some gentlemen. 1848 Dickens Dombey vi, Then converting the parlour, for the nonce, into a private tiring room, she dressed her. |