changing-room

See also: changing room

English

Noun

changing-room (plural changing-rooms)

1. Alternative form of changing room.
   • 1841 February 11, “Church of England Education Society for the Young Chimney Sweeps of Bath”, in The Bath Chronicle, volume 84, number 4102, Bath, Somerset: […] Henry E[dmund] Carrington, →OCLC, page [3], column 4:

     [A]ll the scholars will be provided with […] a complete suit of clean clothing, to be taken with them to a changing-room (an appurtenance of the school), where tepid water will be supplied to them each workday morning, about ten o’clock, and all of them be required to give their whole persons a complete washing, and then to go the schoolroom in their clean clothes, […]

   • 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 1, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, →OCLC, section I, page 18:

     Gooderson tells me you were not unadjacent to mobbing up R.B.-J. and Sargent in the changing-rooms, Healey.

   • 2023 December 30, Angelique Chrisafis, “Défi de janvier: French doctors urge politicians to defy alcohol lobby and back dry January”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 2:

     He [Emmanuel Macron] was filmed this year downing a bottle of beer in 17 seconds in a rugby changing-room.