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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dressing room
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bivins listened to their music in his dressing room and a few months later signed them up.
▪ He spent the interval just sitting in his dressing room, gathering his strength for the next act.
▪ He went back into the dressing room, took a shot and came back to play.
▪ Julie Rose would be there and would return the yellow shoes I'd left in a dressing room two weeks ago.
▪ So why was he all smiles in his dressing room after the fight?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dressing room

Dressing \Dress"ing\, n.

  1. Dress; raiment; especially, ornamental habiliment or attire.
    --B. Jonson.

  2. (Surg.) An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to cover a sore or wound.
    --Wiseman.

  3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing.

  4. (Cookery)

    1. A preparation, such as a sauce, to flavor food for eating; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad.

    2. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

  5. Gum, starch, and the like, used in stiffening or finishing silk, linen, and other fabrics.

  6. An ornamental finish, as a molding around doors, windows, or on a ceiling, etc.

  7. Castigation; scolding; -- often with down. [Colloq.]

    Dressing case, a case of toilet utensils.

    Dressing forceps, a variety of forceps, shaped like a pair of scissors, used in dressing wounds.

    Dressing gown, a light gown, such as is used by a person while dressing; a study gown.

    Dressing room, an apartment appropriated for making one's toilet.

    Top-dressing, manure or compost spread over land and not worked into the soil.

Wiktionary
dressing room

n. 1 A room in a theatre etc in which performers may change costume and apply makeup 2 A small room adjoining a domestic bedroom where people may dress or undress in privacy 3 A changing room

WordNet
dressing room

n. a room in which you can change clothes

Usage examples of "dressing room".

After the closing promenade, he made his way unchallenged through the arena's back door and prowled until he found her dressing room.

She cursed him, and railed at fate, until she lurched to her feet to dash to the basin in the dressing room.

While it would have been much nicer if I had not been forced to bear the company of Lady Winterdale, whose personality definitely did not improve upon further acquaintance, and whose taste I had constantly to overule, as it was execrable, I had been poor all my life and nothing could destroy my pleasure in the lovely and elegant garments that began to fill the great mahogany wardrobe in my dressing room.

In a few minutes Julian would come sauntering through the door that connected her bedchamber with his dressing room.

He can say that while he was in the dressing room putting on the costume he heard someone in the office and peeked out to see who it was, and he saw Margot Dickey get the bottle from the desk drawer and put something in it and put the bottle back in the drawer, and go out.