wareroom

[ wair-room, -room ]

noun

1. a room in which goods are stored or are displayed for sale.

Word History and Origins

Origin of wareroom¹

First recorded in 1805–15; ware ¹ + room

Example Sentences

The station was the top of a sort of wareroom for all kinds of railroad junk.

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One workman sews the sacks up and another wheels them to the wareroom.

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It was not, and the eavesdroppers stepped softly out into the big wareroom.

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He meant, however, his own soiled cravat, which he himself had thrown upon the nuptial bed,–that art-chamber and wareroom of his linen.

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Their joint traffic, however, which they carried on exclusively, was in the eight School-offices of Flachsenfingen; the other members of the Council acting only as bale-wrappers, shopmen, and accountants in the Council wareroom.

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