Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room at a railway-station, steamship-pier, or the like, where baggage is received, registered, dated, checked, etc.
- noun A room where baggage may be left until called for, a receipt or number being given.
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Examples
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Because Del Mar brought it into the baggage-room, Michael was suspicious of it.
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It meant more strange men who handled baggage, as it meant in New York, where, from railroad baggage-room to express wagon he was exchanged, for ever a crated prisoner and dispatched to one, Harris Collins, on Long Island.
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Once in the baggage-room, the way was familiar, and, passing into the second room, I found the door open as on the day previous, and in
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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Passengers before they can have their baggage examined have to pay 6 sous at the end of the baggage-room for each box, for which they receive an acknowledgment.
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It instantly occurred to me that a baggage-room _ought_ to open on both platforms.
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The room was a baggage-room, and at that moment unoccupied.
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The social air of a home that was lived in, pervaded this temporary baggage-room between the tracks.
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Why this door and baggage-room should have been left thus open and unguarded when such evident and scrutinizing care was taken in every other quarter, I have to this day been unable to understand.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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They dashed in on Tom Porter, sitting in the despatcher's office upstairs, while the despatcher was hiding below, under a loose plank in the baggage-room floor.
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An instant before it seemed as if nothing short of a miracle could save me from a French guard-house, and now, by the simplest combination of circumstances, in which a restaurant and baggage-room bore an important part, I had passed unchallenged.
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