Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun That room of a bank or private banking-house in which the greater number of the clerks work, and to which the public has access to deposit or to draw money.
- noun Hence In any large financial business, as an insurance company, the principal, more public business-room.
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Examples
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Bullock, Esq., whose yellow face was over a ledger, at which sate a demure clerk, happened to be in the banking-room when George entered.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Uncle Hatto was a little snuffy man, now full seventy years of age, who passed seven hours of every week-day of his life in the dark back chamber behind the banking-room of the firm, and he had so passed every week-day of his life for more years than any of the family could now remember.
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Frederick Bullock, Esq., whose yellow face was over a ledger, at which sate a demure clerk, happened to be in the banking-room when George entered.
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Leaving the stairs on your left, you passed down a dusky passage, and through a glass door, when behold! the banking-room, with its four grave bald-headed clerks.
Idolatry A Romance Julian Hawthorne 1890
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All went inside the high, carved oak railings into the banking-room -- Jimmy included, for Mr. Adams's future son-in-law was welcome anywhere.
Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886
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Vignevielle's banking-room, -- he sitting beside a table, and she, more timid and demure than ever, having just taken a chair by the door, -- she said, trying, with a little bashful laugh, to make the matter seem unimportant, and yet with some tremor of voice:
Madame Delphine George Washington Cable 1884
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Most of the clerks in the banking-room had left; but Burnet was called, and instructed to remain with Leo, while the banker and the detective held a conference in the next room.
Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter Oliver Optic 1859
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"He told me to go into the big room," continued Leo, pointing to the banking-room.
Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter Oliver Optic 1859
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Leo, without knowing why he was required to do so, described in full all that had taken place after he left the banking-room till "Mr. Hart" had changed his clothes, and left the house of André.
Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter Oliver Optic 1859
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The safe in the private office contained the valuable papers of the banker, while those of the firm whose head he was were placed in the vaults of the great banking-room.
Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter Oliver Optic 1859
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