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Lumber room

noun

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

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"Lumber room" Quotes from Famous Books

... long disappeared, and the sacred drama is told with almost as close an adherence to the facts recorded in the Gospels, as though the whole had been done by Protestant workmen. Where is the impress of Christ's footprint now? carted away or thrown into a lumber room as a child's toy that has been outgrown—so surely as has been often said do the famous words "E pur si muove" apply to the Church herself, as well as to that world whose ...

— Ex Voto • Samuel Butler

... spoke I perceived by the ghastly light of the moon another door near. I opened it and saw that it was the entrance to a small dark lumber room. I pushed the old man in, turned the key in the lock, and ran downstairs. The wife was still unaccountably absent. I opened the front door, and trembling, exhausted, drenched in perspiration, found myself in the open air. Every nerve ...

— A Master of Mysteries • L. T. Meade

... as if they must have penetrated to some forgotten lumber room. Everything was thickly covered with the accumulated dirt and cobwebs of years. They could have written their names in the dust. As if she were moving in a dream, Lindsay stooped, and picked up one of ...

— The Manor House School • Angela Brazil

Words linked to "Lumber room" : Britain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Great Britain, storeroom, UK, stowage, storage room, U.K.