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Dressing room   /drˈɛsɪŋ rum/   Listen
noun
Dressing  n.  
1.
Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
2.
(Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to cover a sore or wound.
3.
Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.
4.
(Cookery)
(a)
A preparation, such as a sauce, to flavor food for eating; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.
(b)
The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.
5.
Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.
6.
An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.
7.
Castigation; scolding; often with down. (Colloq.)
Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils.
Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.
Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown.
Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet.
Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.





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"Dressing room" Quotes from Famous Books



... reserving reproof of this and other enormities until later, contented himself with commanding the slipper to be brought to him, when he took it to her with the satirical remark in Spanish that the schoolroom was not a dressing room—Camara para vestirse. To his surprise, however, she smilingly held out the tiny stockinged foot with a singular combination of the spoiled child and the coquettish senorita, and remained with it extended as if waiting for him to kneel and ...
— Trent's Trust and Other Stories • Bret Harte
... whirlwind and we were obliged to return three or four times to acknowledge our appreciation. At the close of the performance the Lord Mayor came with his family on the stage with his grandchild to see the dear old lady. I had retired to the dressing room and removed my costume and was ready to go to the hotel. When I came back Mr. Kohler introduced me and pointed me out to the child. She drew back with her posies and said, "Not this lady, the old lady." No persuasion could induce her to give me the bouquet. At last I told her to come with ...
— Sixty Years of California Song • Margaret Blake-Alverson
... tried both girls, and Lady Helena said they must rest before dinner. She made Beatrice lie down upon the cosy little couch in her dressing room. She watched the dark eyes close, and thought how beautiful the young face looked ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme
... This control of one's resources and the check upon one's feelings was indicated at another time during a performance of Booth, of "Richelieu," as told to me by the actor's friend, the late Laurence Hutton, the writer. Mr. Hutton and Mr. Booth were sitting in the latter's dressing room at Booth's Theater. Booth was, as usual, smoking his beloved pipe. When he heard his cue, he arose, and walked with Hutton to the prompter's entrance, where, giving his pipe to his friend, said: "Larry, will you keep the pipe going until I come off?" Booth entered on the scene; then came the big ...
— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy
... my old ones!" groaned Billy, throwing the leather off into some bushes. He felt troubled—he remembered that he had left the shoes out on the floor of his dressing room. It was all his fault, but Pilot would ...
— Keineth • Jane D. Abbott
... in the dressing room wheeled to take a look at Greg. But young Holmes nodded his head ...
— Dick Prescotts's Fourth Year at West Point - Ready to Drop the Gray for Shoulder Straps • H. Irving Hancock
... like that. Some women are. It is not their fault. It just is so, and yet people think evil and say, shocking! It is in their own mind—the evil—and nowhere else, and I say 'basta,' and go my way, caring not at all. Why, every night in my dressing room at the Regency there is a pile of letters—like that, and flowers. The room is full of them—all from people who love me—and I do not know one of them. I like it, but it makes no difference to me. I told my husband that it was nothing, but no, he went on being jealous. He was ...
— The Master Detective - Being Some Further Investigations of Christopher Quarles • Percy James Brebner


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