room set

A form of roomset — A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.

Meanings

nounroom set (plural room sets)

plural room sets

  1. alternativeAlternative form of roomset.

    In a far corner, a room set had been built and furnished to resemble a bed-and-breakfast in the Swedish countryside.

    2012, Dean Starkman, Martha Hamilton, Ryan Chittum, Best Business Writing, →ISBN, page 396
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    In museum terms, this means reconstructing the real place, by providing room sets or even complete buildings for objects.

    2000, Kevin Moore, Museums and Popular Culture, →ISBN, page 140

    Paula's shop, by contrast, had room sets behind its vast sheet of plate glass, a bedroom, or a sitting room with cushions and curtains in white linen to show off the dark wood of the furniture, and tropical ferns and grasses sprouting brilliantly out of pots that might, just might, have once graced a Balinese temple.

    2008, Joanna Trollope, Friday Nights, →ISBN, page 130
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