floor-space

floor-space (uncountable)

1. Archaic form of floorspace.
   • 1871, Joseph Henry, “Report of Professor Joseph Henry, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, for 1870”, in Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, Showing the Operations, Expenditures, and Condition of the Institute for the Year 1870, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page 35:

     Second, to appropriate the wall-surface and a part of the floor-space of the western wing of the building to mineralogy and geology.

   • 1875 January 9, John Brett, “County Court Houses and County Gaols in Ireland”, in George Godwin, editor, The Builder: An Illustrated Weekly Magazine, for the Architect, Engineer, Archæologist, Constructor, Sanitary Reformer, and Art-Lover, volume XXXIII, number 1666, London: Office: […], page 32, column 2:

     When the court is used at quarter sessions and petty sessions several magistrates sit together, so that the floor-space of the bench ought to be considerable, sufficient perhaps for ten or twelve magistrates.

   • 1897, Francis C[ruger] Moore, “Inside the House”, in How to Build a Home: The House Practical; Being Suggestions as to Safety from Fire, Safety to Health, Comfort, Convenience, Durability, and Economy, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday & McClure Co., →OCLC, page 43:

     It is safe to assume that it is wise to sacrifice floor-space of rooms for closets, for they secure not only comfort, but order and neatness in the appearance of the house.

   • 1897, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman Jr., “Walls”, in The Decoration of Houses, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 35:

     This division of the room makes it more difficult to furnish and less comfortable to live in, besides wasting all the floor-space between the chimney and the door.