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writ-room en · NOUN

Etymology

From writ + room.

Meanings

1. A room where writs, writings, or written records are housed or kept; a law library.
   • I have two Assistants in the same Office with myself, and one in the large Writ Room behind. Every Document more than a year old, except Declarations, is kept in the Writ Room. 1842, House of Commons papers - Volume 23 - Page 35
   • McNeil Island Penitentiary contained a centrally located law library, which inmates referred to as the “writ room.” 2010, Daniel Burton-Rose, Guerrilla USA:
   • I went to the writ-room also called the law library. 2007, Bobby Delgado, Gangs, Prisons, Parole $ The Politics Behind Them - Page 166:
   • At the same time Vera, Robertson and Quiroz were emptying the writ room of all its contents. 1997, Ronald Wayne Robinson, Prison Hostage: The Siege of the Walls Prison in Huntsville, Texas - Page vii:

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