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roomset

roomset noun: a model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.

Noun

roomset (plural roomsets)

  1. (UK) A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.
    • You can then hang pictures or mirrors - whatever seems appropriate to your setting. The finishing touch is a remnant of thick foambacked carpet which greatly enhances the effect of the roomset, provides the model with a comfortable surface either for her feet, or to sit or lie upon, if your shot...1982, Ivor Matanle, Techniques of photographing the nude, →ISBN, page 75
    • Above: three fairly powerful lighting units were needed to balance the light in this roomset so that the window and room appeared equally bright.1984, David Kilpatrick, Light and Lighting, page 83
  2. A collection of matching materials for decorating a room, including wallpaper, friezes, dadoes, etc.
    • There is the Neo-Grec roomset, a 19th-century re-creation of classical Greek ornamentation. There are roomsets in the tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane, the latter including stylized iris and moth motifs. There is the lovely Anglo-Japanese roomset, speaking to the style for all things...1989, San Diego Home Garden - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 89
    • Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers offers a complete, handprinted Anglo-Japanese roomset.1989 July-August, “Resoration Products”, in Old-House Journal, volume 17, number 4, page 54

Examples of roomset in a sentence

  • ln this traveling salesman's box (above) used in the 1930s, the samples were cunningly set against roomset cut-outs, with doors and windows, to give the impression of a room.1984, Nonie Niesewand, The complete interior designer, →ISBN, page 83:
  • Each roomset revolves around a large sofa on or near which much of the action takes place.1994, Design Review: The Journal of the Chartered Society of Designers:
  • Create one or more virtual cameras and view and render three distinctly different views of the roomset that you feel show it to full advantage.2002, Marcia Kuperberg, Martin W. Bowman, Rob Manton, A Guide to Computer Animation: For TV, Games, Multimedia and Web, →ISBN:
  • There is the Neo-Grec roomset, a 19th-century re-creation of classical Greek ornamentation.1989, San Diego Home Garden - Volume 11, Issues 1-6, page 89:

Forms of roomset

pluralroomsets
alternative formroom set
alternative formroom-set

Origin of roomset

From room + set.

Questions about roomset

What does roomset mean?
Roomset means a model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.
How do you use roomset in a sentence?
ln this traveling salesman's box (above) used in the 1930s, the samples were cunningly set against roomset cut-outs, with doors and windows, to give the impression of a room.
What part of speech is roomset?
Roomset is a noun.
What is the plural of roomset?
The plural of roomset is roomsets.

Words near roomset in the dictionary

  1. rooms by the hour
  2. rooms for doubt
  3. rooms in
  4. rooms of doom
  5. roomscale
  6. roomset
  7. roomsets
  8. roomsful
  9. roomsome
  10. roomspace
  11. roomth

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