roomset

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Definition of roomset

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (UK)A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.
    “You can then hang pictures or mirrors - whatever seems appropriate to your setting. The finishing touch is a remnant of thick foambacked carpet which greatly enhances the effect of the roomset, provides the model with a comfortable surface either for her feet, or to sit or lie upon, if your shot demands it, and which also serves to conceal any imperfect match between the floor and the bottoms of your flats.”
    “Above: three fairly powerful lighting units were needed to balance the light in this roomset so that the window and room appeared equally bright.”
    “ln this traveling salesman's box (above) used in the 1930s, the samples were cunningly set against roomset cut-outs, with doors and windows, to give the impression of a room.”
    “Each roomset revolves around a large sofa on or near which much of the action takes place.”
    “Create one or more virtual cameras and view and render three distinctly different views of the roomset that you feel show it to full advantage.”
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noun

  1. (UK)A model or part of a showroom etc. furnished to look like a room in a house.
    “You can then hang pictures or mirrors - whatever seems appropriate to your setting. The finishing touch is a remnant of thick foambacked carpet which greatly enhances the effect of the roomset, provides the model with a comfortable surface either for her feet, or to sit or lie upon, if your shot demands it, and which also serves to conceal any imperfect match between the floor and the bottoms of your flats.”
    “Above: three fairly powerful lighting units were needed to balance the light in this roomset so that the window and room appeared equally bright.”
    “ln this traveling salesman's box (above) used in the 1930s, the samples were cunningly set against roomset cut-outs, with doors and windows, to give the impression of a room.”
    “Each roomset revolves around a large sofa on or near which much of the action takes place.”
    “Create one or more virtual cameras and view and render three distinctly different views of the roomset that you feel show it to full advantage.”
  2. A collection of matching materials for decorating a room, including wallpaper, friezes, dadoes, etc.
    “There is the Neo-Grec roomset, a 19th-century re-creation of classical Greek ornamentation. There are roomsets in the tradition of William Morris and Walter Crane, the latter including stylized iris and moth motifs. There is the lovely Anglo-Japanese roomset, speaking to the style for all things Japanesque”
    “Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers offers a complete, handprinted Anglo-Japanese roomset.”
    “Created by graduates of the KLC SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN, each roomset has the sharply defined look of its season.”
    “Bradbury sells its papers across the country and beyond through a color catalog that organizes papers into coordinated groupings called "roomsets." A typical roomset contains between 8 and 15 individual wall and ceiling patterns that can be used together or separately.”
    “Dating to the early 1980s, this room project is a Victorian Revival milestone, for it was the first time that a coordinated roomset of dado, filling, frieze, and ceiling papers was installed by Bradbury & Bradbury Art Wallpapers.”

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Etymology

From room + set.

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