Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room where samples are kept and shown.
- noun A place where liquor is sold by the glass; a bar-room; a grogshop.
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Examples
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They lifted their eye-brows at first, but, somehow, it was impossible to associate this girl with the blithe, shirt-sleeved, cigar-smoking traveling men who followed her about the sample-room, order book in hand.
Fanny Herself Edna Ferber 1926
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They lifted their eye-brows at first, but, somehow, it was impossible to associate this girl with the blithe, shirt-sleeved, cigar-smoking traveling men who followed her about the sample-room, order book in hand.
Fanny Herself 1917
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Hence it is not surprising to find the stock-room not only a museum, but a sample-room of nature, as well as a supply department.
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The place is not natural scenery; it is a junk-shop, a storehouse, a sample-room wherein the elements of natural scenery are to be viewed.
The Mountains Stewart Edward White 1909
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Will made a noise resembling an affirmative, and as soon as he got his breath explained that travelling men generally wanted a sort of a showroom next to theirs and that that was called a sample-room, too.
The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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We ended vulgarly with a bet, Will wagering me the best five-cent Clear Havana in the Bigelow House sample-room that nothing worth mentioning would take place in Radville before sundown of the following day.
The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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"Oh," said Mr. Duncan, "I thought you meant the 'sample-room' over there."
The Fortune Hunter Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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Hence it is not surprising to find the stock-room not only a museum, but a sample-room of nature, as well as a supply department.
Edison, His Life and Inventions Frank Lewis Dyer 1905
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"There's no use talking, Abe," Morris Perlmutter declared to his partner, Abe Potash, as they sat in the sample-room of their spacious cloak-and-suit establishment.
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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As if to clinch the matter before his partner could retract this somewhat grudging consent, Morris Perlmutter stalked out of the sample-room and made resolutely for the glass-enclosed office, where
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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