ˈout-room
[out- 1.]
An outlying room; an out-building or outhouse. Also fig.
| 1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. i. Wks. (Rtldg.) 111/1 Lay them..in some out-room or corner of the dining-chamber. 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. ii. vii. 74 If our artist lodgeth her in the out-rooms of his soul for a night or two. 1668 Dryden Mart. Mar-all iii. ii, In an out-room, upon a trunk. 1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys ii. 21 Gersham..ran up and down the out-room staircase. Ibid. 28 As she came into the out-room again. 1929 J. Shelton Salt-Box House xii. 88 The floors were..sprinkled with white sea sand, that on the ‘out-rooms’ being swept lightly in fanciful patterns by brooms. 1971 Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 22 Aug. 5/2 He has a basement and an outroom full of bottles waiting to receive attention. |