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English
Noun
store-room (plural store-rooms)
- Dated form of storeroom.
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XI, in Emma: , volume III, London: for John Murray, →OCLC, page 188:In Jane’s eyes she had been a rival; and well might any thing she could offer of assistance or regard be repulsed. An airing in the Hartfield carriage would have been the rack, and arrow-root from the Hartfield store-room must have been poison.
1870 February–March, David Leslie, “Wild Life in South Africa”, in W H Drummond, editor, Among the Zulus and Amatongas: With Sketches of the Natives, Their Language and Customs; and the Country, Products, Climate, Wild Animals, &c. , Glasgow: W Gilchrist, , published 1875, →OCLC, section VI (A Night Round the Fire), page 132:"Here's what the arsenic or strychnine was in, but now it is mixed with the dishes, knives, forks, spoons, biscuits, beef, &c.; in fact, our pantry and store-room are worse than a score of Pritchard's."
1888, Donn Piatt, “The Great Dynamite Scare”, in The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah and Other Tales, Chicago, Ill., : Belford, Clarke & Co., →OCLC, page 143:The place of meeting was not poetic, being in the store-room, amid great piles of boxes, containing the Wonderful Soap and the Superior Candles.
1942, Alex Comfort, The Almond Tree: A Legend, page 144:Fyodor, Pedro and the second heard the first crash from the door of the store-room, and it was succeeded by sprintings of feet overhead along the deck. For a moment they stood listening.