† a. nonce-use. Space in which to dwell. b. A sleeping apartment, bedroom. (Now local.)
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xlvii. 4. 183. If after the bringing of the Ark into the Temple, there had appered none other hygher truth: it had bin but as a chyldish toy to lodge vp god in that narrow lodging roome [L. in angusto illo domicilio Deum locari].
1615. Manch. Crt. Leet Rec. (1885), II. 300. One Chambr or lodginge Roome.
1694. Dryden, Love Triumph., IV. i. 65. The Lodging Rooms are furnisht with Loam: and bare Mattresses are the Beds.
1722. De Foe, Col. Jack (1840), 257. She bade her speak to the innkeeper to show her to her lodging-room.
1800. Dor. Wordsw., Lett., 10 Sept., in Lee, Life (1886), 66. We have one lodging-room, with two single beds.
1823. P. Nicholson, Pract. Builder, 438. Mezzanines are exceedingly convenient for servants, lodging-rooms, powdering-rooms, wardrobes &c.
attrib. 1885. Sheffield & Rotherham Independent, 13 June, 4/4. Lodging-room furniture.Mahogany Dressing Tables, [etc.].