packing room

• Rhymes: -uːm

packing room (plural packing rooms)

1. A room that a business uses to pack items for subsequent storage or shipping.
   • 1944, Vegetable and Fruit Dehydration: A Manual for Plant Operators:

     If the probable highest dew point can be estimated, the corresponding relative humidity in the packing room at any desired temperature may be determined from a humidity chart.

   • 2012, Kathy Leonard Czepiel, A Violet Season: A Novel:

     In the last few days of the rush, Ida finally dressed and walked up to the packing room to contribute her share of the work.

   • 2012, Margaret Bateson, Professional Women Upon Their Professions: Conversations, page 84:

     We take a look in at the packing room, where every inch of wall space is occupied with stacks of photographs, pigeon-holed and alphabetically docketed. Young women, I observe, are in charge of this room, and Miss Hughes tells me that the head of the packing department occupies a post of some responsibility, and must, accordingly, be well paid.

2. A room in a large house that is used for storing unused items; storage room.
   • 1914, Country Life - Volume 25, page 158:

     Three light, airy bedrooms, packing room, bath and closets on third floor. Brick fireplace in living room and master's room; big, broad, livable veranda, newly screened, grounds among most artistic and best cared for in New York's most beautiful siiburb, thoughtfully planted and carefully cultivated, ....

   • 1963, South of Yesterday: The Memoirs of Francis McKelden Smith, page 37:

     Above the dining room were two bedrooms; above the pantry, a packing room; and above the kitchen and laundry, two servants' rooms.

   • 1977, The Presidents:

     On the second floor are six bedrooms, a sewing room, packing room, and four servants' bedrooms.

   • 1990, Noah H. Bradley, My Mother's Family, page 220:

     One of these rooms was what they called the "packing room" where they kept the "out of style" dresses, hats, and even hoops.