Obs. or arch. Also 6– tyring-. [f. TIRING vbl. sb.3 + HOUSE.] A dressing-room; esp. the room or place in which the actors dressed for the stage; = TIRING-ROOM.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., III. i. 4. This greene plot shall be our stage, this hauthorne brake our tyring house.
1612. Raleigh, Poems (1870), xviii. 29. Our mothers’ wombs the tiring-houses be, Where we are dressed for life’s short comedy.
1620. Melton, Astrolog., 31. While Drummers make Thunder in the Tyring-house.
1639. Fuller, Holy War, IV. vii. (1840), 189. That actor who cometh off with the dislike of the spectators stealeth as invisibly as he may into the tiring-house.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. v. 877. Dying, to the Rational or Humane Soul, is nothing but a withdrawing into the Tyring-house, and putting off the Cloathing of this terrestrial Body.
1908. Q. Rev., April, 453. He runs his lateral curtains back to the tyring-house wall.
