boot-room

The original punkahs were still in full working order, all their operating cords travelling by way of pulleys and holes in walls and floors to a little, airless boot-room where the punkah-wallah sat and tugged the lot together, trapped in the irony of the foetid air of that tiny windowless room while he despatched cool breezes to all other parts of the house.

The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

In stockinged feet he had crept downstairs, opened the creaking door without making any appreciable noise, and then waited in the boot-room, which was filled with the odour of blacking and damp decay.

The Loom of Youth Alec Waugh 1939

On the night before an exam, he would retire to some secret, solitary place, such as the boot-room, and commence learning these notes by heart.

Tales of St. Austin's 1928

He found the boot-room door and slipped through just as Mr Kay turned the corner.

The Head of Kay's 1928

But it brought home to me the recollection of nine visits to the boot-room with that amiable and much-respected Father St. John.

The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon 1892

He possessed a powerful arm, which he wielded with very considerable freedom when applying the birch in the recesses of the boot-room.

The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon 1892

I must admit that my interviews with Father St. John in the boot-room were not infrequent.

The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon 1892

She went to the boot-room where her pattens had hung ever since her apotheosis; took them down, had their mildewed leathers blacked, and put them on as she had done in old times.

The Mayor of Casterbridge 1887

She went to the boot-room where her pattens had hung ever since her apotheosis; took them down, had their mildewed leathers blacked, and put them on as she had done in old times.

The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884

'Then I'll come down to the boot-room at half-past six to-morrow morning and hear what you've got to tell me.'

The Golden Calf 1875