"waiting-room" meaning in English

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          "word": "waiting room"
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        {
          "ref": "1817, Henry Horne, Elements of criticism",
          "text": "In the third place, by its situation it serves only for a waiting-room, and a passage to the principal apartments, instead of being reserved, as it ought to be, for entertaining company […]",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1875, Bret Harte, “Brown of Calaveras”, in The Tales of the Argonauts",
          "text": "\"Look keerfully arter that baggage, Kernel,\" said the expressman, with affected concern, as he looked after Colonel Starbottle, gloomily bringing up the rear of the triumphant procession to the waiting-room. Mr. Hamlin did not stay for dinner.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment",
          "text": "She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1933, James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer as \"Shamus Frazer\", Acorned Hog, page 78",
          "text": "Over on that platform's the general waiting-room,... and over there's the Gentlemen's, and, any'ow, everythink's written up.",
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          "ref": "1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Section One, London: Heinemann, page 111",
          "text": "There his chains would be removed and he would be ushered into the waiting-room for a five-minute chat with his wife surrounded on all sides by security men and civilian-clad prison warders.",
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        "Dated form of waiting room."
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1817, Henry Horne, Elements of criticism",
          "text": "In the third place, by its situation it serves only for a waiting-room, and a passage to the principal apartments, instead of being reserved, as it ought to be, for entertaining company […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1875, Bret Harte, “Brown of Calaveras”, in The Tales of the Argonauts",
          "text": "\"Look keerfully arter that baggage, Kernel,\" said the expressman, with affected concern, as he looked after Colonel Starbottle, gloomily bringing up the rear of the triumphant procession to the waiting-room. Mr. Hamlin did not stay for dinner.",
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        },
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          "ref": "c. 1900, O. Henry, The Ferry of Unfulfilment",
          "text": "She walked into the waiting-room of the ferry, and up the stairs, and by a marvellous swift, little run, caught the ferry-boat that was just going out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "1933, James Ian Arbuthnot Frazer as \"Shamus Frazer\", Acorned Hog, page 78",
          "text": "Over on that platform's the general waiting-room,... and over there's the Gentlemen's, and, any'ow, everythink's written up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Detained: A Writer's Prison Diary, Section One, London: Heinemann, page 111",
          "text": "There his chains would be removed and he would be ushered into the waiting-room for a five-minute chat with his wife surrounded on all sides by security men and civilian-clad prison warders.",
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