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名詞

outroom (plural outrooms)

1. An outer room.
   • 1642, Thomas Fuller, The Holy State, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams, […], →OCLC:

     If our Artist lodgeth her in the out-rooms of his soul for a night or two, it is rather to heare then believe her relations

   • 1969, The Stair Society - Volume 25, page 453:

     Bearing that . . . the said Roger Murphey . . . did upon Saturnday [11 Dec. 1731] under cloud of night or uponone or other of the nights of the said month without any provocation most basely and felloniously murder and kill the said Francis Galbreth in an outroom of the dwelling house possessed by Robert Compbell, inkeeper at Dalmalie in Glenurchay, with a kive by giving him a would therewith in the belly whereof he dyed within twenty four hours thereafter or thereby , at least at the time and place foresaid when he the said (145) Roger Murphey was strugling with the said Francis Galbreth

   • 2023, Patty Jansen, Beginnings:

     She turned away before she burst into tears and left the living room for the outroom, slamming the door behind her .

2. A small (but possibly consisting of multiple rooms) outbuilding, such as a shed or sleepout.
   • 1963, Oliver James Claudius Francis, The People of Modern Jamaica:

     The household who occupies the outroom may by connected to the main occupier of the premises by employment, but not necessarily so.

   • 2009, André Brink, A Fork in the Road:

     Then he took her by the hand and led her round the house to the outroom, which he unlocked with great ceremony.

   • 2021, George E. Eaton, Memoirs: Interlocking Halls of Academe with Corridors of Power:

     On the very day that they arrived at our home, we had a disquieting incident involving Adrian, the decrepit old man who continued to live in a small outroom on the property.

   • 2022, Jean D'Costa, Sprat Morrison:

     The outroom was a tumble down shed at the bottom of the vegetable garden, where various tools, odd bits of furniture, empty boxes and other fascinating things rotted slowly together.