dressingroom

Noun

dressing room (plural dressing rooms)

1. A room used for dressing or changing clothes.
   • 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.1949 March, Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, Agricultural Research Administration, United States Department of Agriculture; Production and Marketing Administration, U.S. Dept. of...
   1. A small room adjoining a domestic bedroom where people may dress or undress in privacy.
      • 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...[1688], “Sir Stephen Fox Knight, Deposeth”, in Depositions Taken the 22d. of October 1688. before the Privy-Council and Peers of England; Relating to the Birth of the (then) Prince of Wales....
   2. A room in a theatre or other performance venue in which performers may change costumes and apply makeup.
      • 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...1784, Thomas Sheridan, “Section VI. Private Memoirs of Swift”, in The Life of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, volume I, London: Printed for C[harles] Bathurst [et al.]...
   3. (UK) A changing room at a recreational or sports venue.
      • Going into a dressing-room full of established players was not easy. It was like Lancashire all over again only more so.2005, Andrew Flintoff, “England Debut”, in Being Freddie: The Story So Far, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN