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the room in a trading post (def. 1) where the actual bartering takes place.
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1867
In many of the Posts the trade room is cleverly contrived, so as to prevent a sudden rush of Indians, the approach from outside the pickets being through a long, narrow passage, only of sufficient width to admit one Indian at a time, the passage being bent at an acute angle near the window, where the trader stands.
1942
The whisky smugglers have forts such as none of the old Northwest forts were like--double-walled, some of them. And do they let their customers into the trade-rooms even in small groups? No, sir!