DCHP-3

sample room

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a hotel or other room rented to commercial travellers and other salesmen who wish to display samples of their goods for viewing by prospective customers.

Quotations

1887
. . . one of the drug travellers insisted . . . that the clerk . . . had, in the north sample room, first nicknamed Albendis "Chippy."
1897
The Dominion Hotel . . . Sample Rooms for Commercial Travellers.
1898
The Aurora Sample Room . . . We have the finest brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars in the city.