shroudroom
/ˈʃraʊdruːm/nounVerified NewA formal room kept pristine for occasions that never arrive, and therefore never used.
The good sofa faces a television nobody watches; the piano is dusted but never played; the "best" room costs the household its most square footage for zero nightly use. Shroudrooms exist in apartments as corners and in houses as wings. Their guests are hypothetical.
Etym. — shroud + room — furniture waiting under its dust cover like a wrapped monument.
Rel. — museumroom · towelfreeze
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