tiring room

noun

, Archaic.

1. a dressing room, especially in a theater.

tiring room

noun

1. archaic.
   a dressing room in a theatre

Word History and Origins

Origin of tiring room¹

First recorded in 1615–25; aphetic variant of attiring room

Example Sentences

So sith here they whip sores, and imprison infirmities, I to my tiring room.'

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My fine lady has driven black Juba from the tiring room of the Empress.

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Impudent breakings in from the gentles who lounged on the stage and blew tobacco smoke from their pipes into the faces perchance of Burbage and Shakespeare himself; vulgar interpolations of some clown while the stage waited the entrance of a player delayed in the tiring room must have been daily occurrences.

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It was now a good deal after 10 o'clock, and the performance was over: but the Venetian Nobili, in the dignified solemnity of their black dresses, were scattered about the room in parties--or laying aside the costlier part of their finery in a remote corner partly screened off from public view, which had been allotted to them as a tiring room.

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Let those dark slaughter-houses burst upon our sight, These kitchens are too clean, too near the tiring room!

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