Word: dressing room Part of Speech: noun Pronunciation: /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ ɹʊm/, /ˈdɹɛsɪŋ ɹuːm/, /ˈd(ʒ)ɹɛsɪŋ ɹum/ 1. A room used for dressing or changing clothes. Example: The storeroom is not a suitable dressing room. A separate room is needed where workers may change from street clothes to uniforms and where they may keep their personal belongings. 2. A room used for dressing or changing clothes. Example: That on Sunday the 10th. of June laſt paſt, about 9 of the Clock, as he came out of the Chappel at Whitehall, after the firſt Sermon, hearing that the Queen was in Labour, he, the Deponent, made Haſte to St. James’s, becauſe in waiting, as an Officer of the green Cloth, to warn the ſeveral Servants below Stairs to be in their Offices, that upon that Occaſion there might not happen to be any Thing wanting of Houſehold Proviſions and Neceſſaries under his, this Deponent's Command; but firſt going up by the Back-Stairs into her Majeſty’s Dreſſing-Room; and being there with many others, he heard her Majeſty cry out very loudly; […] and as this Deponent was returning back to the Queen’s ſaid Dreſſing-Room, he was told a Prince was born: […] Example: The principle which governs the providing of Dressing-rooms seems to be this. […] Then comes the case of one Dressing-room, by which it may be said the gentleman's toilet is taken out of the lady's way, she retaining the Bed-room; and this admits of the attendance of a lady's-maid. Then follows the case of two Dressing-rooms, which in its simplest form supposes the lady not to give up the use of the Bedroom for dressing, but to make use of the inner retiring-room for washing. 3. A room used for dressing or changing clothes. Example: Nothing has more excited the curioſity of mankind at all times, than that deſire which prevails of prying into the ſecret actions of great and illustrious characters; ariſing in ſome, from a too general ſpirit of envy, which hopes to find ſomething in their private conduct that may ſully the luſtre of their publick fame, and ſo bring them down more to a level with themſelves: and in others, of a more candid diſposition, that they might form right judgements of their real characters; as too many, like actors in a theatre, only aſſume one when they appear on the ſtage of the world, which they put off, together with their robes and plumes, when retired to the dreſſing room. Example: A reporter found him [John Gielgud] in a silk dressing-gown in his dressing-room, 'receiving the congratulations of a gallery of men', and clearly exultant: 'The actor was talking in quick, excited sentences, and it was obvious that the impetuous Hamlet had not yet subsided into the usual British reserve.' 4. A room used for dressing or changing clothes. Labels: UK Example: Going into a dressing-room full of established players was not easy. It was like Lancashire all over again only more so. Example: As half-time approached with Everton desperate to get into the dressing room and regroup, Liverpool were awarded a penalty for [Phil] Jagielka's rash challenge on [Luis] Suarez. This time there was no disputing [Martin] Atkinson's decision, but [Tim] Howard rescued Everton by diving low to his left to keep out [Dirk] Kuyt's spot-kick.