muniment room
noun
Definition of muniment room
: a storage room for preservation of family or sometimes official or parochial records, papers, notebooks old manuscript treasures accumulated during the centuries in the muniment rooms of most of the noble and ancient families of Britain — St. Vincent Troubridge cobwebby old muniment rooms — R. D. Altick
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