Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room in which sets of harness are cleaned, repaired, and stored.
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Examples
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I looked at the posts of the gate, in the dark, because they were tall, like father, and then at the door of the harness-room, where he used to smoke his pipe and sing.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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I foraged about and found the side-saddle and bridle in the harness-room.
Robbery Under Arms 2004
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A young jockey and horse-trainer, who had trained some horses for my uncle, once talked to me of wicked England while we cooked a turkey for our Christmas dinner, making it twist about on a string in front of his harness-room fire.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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A young jockey and horse-trainer, who had trained some horses for my uncle, once talked to me of wicked England while we cooked a turkey for our Christmas dinner, making it twist about on a string in front of his harness-room fire.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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A young jockey and horse-trainer, who had trained some horses for my uncle, once talked to me of wicked England while we cooked a turkey for our Christmas dinner, making it twist about on a string in front of his harness-room fire.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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A young jockey and horse-trainer, who had trained some horses for my uncle, once talked to me of wicked England while we cooked a turkey for our Christmas dinner, making it twist about on a string in front of his harness-room fire.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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In what had once been the harness-room, two young men sat at work.
Australia Felix 2003
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Snowball had found in the harness-room an old green tablecloth of Mrs. Jones's and had painted on it a hoof and a horn in white.
Animal Farm Orwell, George, 1903-1950 1971
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The animals had assumed as a matter of course that these would be shared out equally; one day, however, the order went forth that all the windfalls were to be collected and brought to the harness-room for the use of the pigs.
Animal Farm Orwell, George, 1903-1950 1971
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The pigs had set aside the harness-room as a headquarters for themselves.
Animal Farm Orwell, George, 1903-1950 1971
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