Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An adjoining room or apartment; a side room.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A private room or apartment.
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- noun An
adjoining room orapartment ; a side room.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Glendale is the suburb of Phoenix, and for a short time police put the hospital on lockdown as they searched room - by-room for this man.
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K. BONDY (voice-over): Capturing pictures of my belongings for the insurance company, as a small army of workers braving almost two months of mold and foul water left by K.trina, removed it all, room - by-room.
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But, Ned, to drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee, do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do thou never leave calling “Francis,” that his tale to me may be nothing but “Anon.”
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But, Ned, to drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do thou never leave calling Francis!
Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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To drive away the time till Falstaff comes, I prithee, do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave me the Sugar.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868
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When they reached the ground-floor, he led George into a by-room which looked like an armory, so filled was it with arms of all kinds and nations.
Secret des Champdoce. English ��mile Gaboriau 1852
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But, Ned, to drive away the time till Falstaff come, I prithee, do thou stand in some by-room, while I question my puny drawer to what end he gave me the sugar; and do thou never leave calling 'Francis,' that his tale to me may be nothing but 'Anon.'
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'tis in private and a by-room, and on condition not to know them before company.
Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle
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