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Definition of Backrooms
1. backroom [n] - See also: backroom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backrooms
Literary usage of Backrooms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets by William Howitt (1847)
"While she resided in it, she had a set of backrooms, the noise of Upper
Pembroke-street having been too much for her. The College grounds, of great extent, ..."
2. Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary by James Curtis Hepburn (1873)
"The ceremony of scattering parched beans about the backrooms of a house to drive
out evil spirits, on the last evening of the old year. MAME. ..."
3. The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler, David Josiah Brewer (1900)
"... they and their works are condemned to the limbo of the second-hand dealer's
backrooms,— a limbo from which those who do not fear learned dust may rescue ..."
4. American Military Biography; Containing the Lives, Characters, and Anecdotes by Amos Blanchard (1825)
"Since this period many political schemes have originated, in the "backrooms" of
printing-offices, but iti general of a very different character. ..."
5. The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation by Upton Sinclair (1918)
"... to sneer at the Socialists for having their meetings in the backrooms of
saloons, and precisely as they still denounce us as free-lovers and atheists. ..."
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