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- noun Plural form of
strongroom .
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Examples
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How many gaps does the mysticism of money offer, and in which strongrooms is its poetry hidden away?
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The collections in the lower floor strongrooms seem to go on for ever - boxes, books, and box files of all shapes and sizes containing most of what you've ever heard of in British literary history.
Archive 2010-03-01 DC 2010
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The collections in the lower floor strongrooms seem to go on for ever - boxes, books, and box files of all shapes and sizes containing most of what you've ever heard of in British literary history.
On a forthcoming exhibition DC 2010
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The senatorial records were kept in fireproof strongrooms, built to withstand a lightning strike, tunneled into the rock of the Capitol, and when the slaves swung back the big bronze door I had a glimpse of thousands upon thousands of rolled papyri, receding into the shadows of the sacred hill.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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The senatorial records were kept in fireproof strongrooms, built to withstand a lightning strike, tunneled into the rock of the Capitol, and when the slaves swung back the big bronze door I had a glimpse of thousands upon thousands of rolled papyri, receding into the shadows of the sacred hill.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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There are only a few places where goods and coins are concentrated, and that's in the towns and in the strongrooms of the growers and the factors or when people travel the high roads.
Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006
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Police intelligence were warned that gang members were planning to break into one of about 20 strongrooms at the Faure base, where the public order policing units store their arms.
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The director of elections would need one day's notice for applicants or their representatives to inspect any such documents stored in the strongrooms of the Maseru IEC headquarters.
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Not only grain was stored and sold here Space was rented out for everything from wine cellars to strongrooms.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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It has not yet been established whether they passed through two gates, manned by police, or whether they used a minor road through the bushes to get to one of about 20 strongrooms.
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