show·room

[shoh-room, -room]
noun
a room used for the display of goods or merchandise.

Origin:
1610–20; show + room

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showroom (ˈʃəʊˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
n
a room in which goods, such as cars, are on display

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Showroom is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Word Origin & History

showroom
"room for displaying furniture for sale," 1616, from show (v.) + room.
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Example sentences
There's the car dealer who tried to throw the scruffy hippie out of the
  showroom.
One of the existing brick buildings was renovated for use as a motorcycle
  showroom and office.
As a result, few electric cars have moved from the showroom to the street.
He sat on a platform two feet above the showroom floor.
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