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sample room

noun

  1. a room, as in a hotel suite, in which merchandise is displayed for sale to the trade.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of sample room1

An Americanism dating back to 1860–65

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Example Sentences

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.

If travelers' samples are to be examined, it should be done in the sample room provided for that purpose, and in forenoons only.

I remembered that when I was conveyed up to the sample-room that morning my desk had been open.

As the hotel was filled, I was obliged to sleep in a sample room.

Hastily she adjusted her pompadour and tripped off to the sample-room.

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