[f. BY- 3 a + ROOM.] A side or private room; a smaller room opening out of another.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., II. iv. 32. Doe thou stand in some by-roome, while I question my puny Drawer.
c. 1615. Chapman, Odyss., III. 545. Himself lay in a by-room, far above.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., I. s.v. Cabbage, Lay them in some Cellar or by-room.
1755. in Johnson; and in mod. Dicts.
