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chamber of horrors en · NOUN
Meanings
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An exhibition which displays horrific items, such as instruments of torture, frightful crimes being committed, etc.
“Screaming headlines in every paper in the country—damn all journalists, I say! Do you know there was a whole crowd staring in at the lodge gates this morning. Sort of Madame Tussaud’s chamber of horrors business that can be seen for nothing.”
1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 126:
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Any place in which horrific things take place or have taken place.
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horror chamber