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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A room at a railway-station, steamship-pier, or the like, where baggage is received, registered, dated, checked, etc.
- n. A room where baggage may be left until called for, a receipt or number being given.
Examples
“It meant more strange men who handled baggage, as it meant in New York, where, from railroad baggage-room to express wagon he was exchanged, for ever a crated prisoner and dispatched to one, Harris Collins, on Long Island.”
“Because Del Mar brought it into the baggage-room, Michael was suspicious of it.”
“They dashed in on Tom Porter, sitting in the despatcher's office upstairs, while the despatcher was hiding below, under a loose plank in the baggage-room floor.”
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“The social air of a home that was lived in, pervaded this temporary baggage-room between the tracks.”
“Passengers before they can have their baggage examined have to pay 6 sous at the end of the baggage-room for each box, for which they receive an acknowledgment.”
“Why this door and baggage-room should have been left thus open and unguarded when such evident and scrutinizing care was taken in every other quarter, I have to this day been unable to understand.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
“An instant before it seemed as if nothing short of a miracle could save me from a French guard-house, and now, by the simplest combination of circumstances, in which a restaurant and baggage-room bore an important part, I had passed unchallenged.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
“The room was a baggage-room, and at that moment unoccupied.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
“Once in the baggage-room, the way was familiar, and, passing into the second room, I found the door open as on the day previous, and in”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
“It instantly occurred to me that a baggage-room _ought_ to open on both platforms.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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