sample room

She was a dressy young person, whose father kept a "sample-room."

Between them I was dragged up stairs to the sample-room, into which I were ignominiously thrust, and the door locked behind me.

Hence it is not surprising to find the stock-room not only a museum, but a sample-room of nature, as well as a supply department.

Hastily she adjusted her pompadour and tripped off to the sample-room.