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Definition of Lumber room

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumber Room

Literary usage of Lumber room

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"Position for Lumber-room and requirements. — When to be used as a Workshop. — When provided at the Stables. — Luggage-room, its uses and requirements. ..."

2. Presbyterianism; Its Relation to the Negro by Matthew Anderson (1897)
"GIVEN A lumber room. After a whispered consultation with one of the servants, about the building, he took us to a room which evidently had been used as a ..."

3. The Connoisseur by Bonnell Thornton, George Colman, Mr Town, George Lyttelton Lyttelton (1902)
"Of these we give illustrations, together with Bodley's Bell, curiously mounted upon a wheel, which was recovered from a forgotten lumber room within recent ..."

4. Collected Poems by Austin Dobson (1913)
"THE SCREEN IN THE lumber room "VT^ES, here it is, behind the box, .*. That puzzle wrought so neatly— That paradise of paradox— We once knew so completely; ..."

5. The Cultivator by New York State Agricultural Society (1847)
"48, Л. is the principal stairway—B. bed-rooms—C. closets—D. is either a bedroom or lumber-room—HH halls—0. kitchen stairs— G. garret stairs. ..."

6. At the Sign of the Lyre by Austin Dobson (1889)
"THE SCREEN IN THE lumber room. "V/'ES, here it is, behind the box, -*- That puzzle wrought so neatly— That paradise of paradox— We once knew so completely ..."

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