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strong room

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strong room
n.
A strongly built fireproof room designed for the safekeeping of money or valuables.


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And he took Robin aside to his strong room and pressed him again to take the four hundred golden pounds.
It had never been inquired after, and it was no doubt in the strong room among other papers that had not been disturbed since his father's death.
There, too, among unusual bottle-racks and pale slants of light from the yard above, was the strong room stored with old ledgers, which had as musty and corrupt a smell as if they were regularly balanced, in the dead small hours, by a nightly resurrection of old book-keepers.
 
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