Definition of "court-room" [court-room]

• The room or chamber in which a court is regularly held and justice is dispensed. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The magistrate complimented the woman on her muscular powers, and the court-room laughed; but all I could see was a boy on the threshold of life, passionately crawling to muddy death, and there was no laughter in it."
• "So it was, when the doom of fifty years of living death was uttered by Judge Scott, that Jim Hall, hating all things in the society that misused him, rose up and raged in the court-room until dragged down by half a dozen of his blue-coated enemies."
• ""Look it over carefully so that you may identify it in the court-room with the time and place of capture.""