[f. TIRING vbl. sb.3 + ROOM.] A dressing-room (arch.); spec. the dressing-room of a theater. Also transf. and fig.
1623. I. M., Pref. Verse, in Shaks. Wks. From the Worlds-Stage, to the Graues-Tyring-roome.
a. 1639. Wotton, De Morte, 2, in Reliq. (1651), 539. Mans life’s a Tragedy. His mothers womb (From which he enters) is the tyring room.
16[?]. Fletcher, Poems, 208 (Nares). The stars are all withdrawn from each glad sphear Within the tyring rooms of heaven.
1666. Pepys, Diary, 19 March. But my business here was to see the inside of the stage and all the tiring-rooms and machines.
1749. Smollett, Gil Bl., XII. i. (1782), IV. 217. After the play I … found her in the tyring-room, talking to some gentlemen.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, vi. Then converting the parlour, for the nonce, into a private tiring room, she dressed her.
