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Lumber room   /lˈəmbər rum/   Listen
Lumber room

noun
1.
A storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture).






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"Lumber room" Quotes from Famous Books



... Guest Room, needed for other occupants, into a two-roomed outbuilding across the garden. Some former pastor had had it built for an oratory and retreat, but now, covered with vines, it had stood for many years unused, save as a sort of lumber room. ...
— Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man • Marie Conway Oemler

... don't know. Yes, I do. Do you know whether that cottage you were telling me about where you lived while you were away from here, is to let? That will do nicely, for there I should be away from every one. Get me a box from the lumber room, and tell Harriet to go out and get me a post chaise from the Red Lion as soon as my son ...
— Through the Fray - A Tale of the Luddite Riots • G. A. Henty

... compared with her. When "Siegfried" was in rehearsal for its first American production, she took a hand in setting the stage. Though she had nothing to do in the second act, she went into the scenic lumber room and selected bits of woodland scenery, and with her own hands rearranged the set so as to make Siegfried's posture and surroundings more effective. When the final dress rehearsal of "Gtterdmmerung" was reached a number of the principal singers were still ...
— Chapters of Opera • Henry Edward Krehbiel



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