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lumber room
noun
a room in a house used for storing odds-and-ends, especially old furniture.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of lumber room1
Example Sentences
There is no lumber room or mind-blowing display of power tools, nor is there a jumble of outdated-to-antique fixtures kept in stock to appeal to retro connoisseurs.
“No. No, I don’t think they were. They were scattered about the house. The chairs were in a lumber room, I believe.”
The more eclectic hoarder species segregate pantry from lumber room from junk museum.
But it never was transferred again to the old lumber room.
The policeman hurried down to the quay, to convey the news to the fishermen, after which he made for the police-station and fished out from a lumber room an antiquated ambulance.
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