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dining-room|ˈdaɪnɪŋruːm|
1. The room in a private house or public establishment in which dinner and other principal meals are taken, and which is furnished for this purpose.
1601Holland Pliny II. 481 The fashion came vp at Rome, that our dames had their beds couered all ouer with siluer, yea, and some dining rooms with tables laid with the same. 1661Cowley Prop. Adv. Exp. Philos., College, A large and pleasant Dining-Room within the Hall for the Professors to eat in. 1681T. Jordan London's Joy in Heath Grocers' Comp. (1869) 547 London's the Dining Room of Christendom. 1708in Swift's Wks. (1755) II. i. 163 She..shows him into the dining-room. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. 129 The dark-wainscoted dining-room, with its noble fireplace of gigantic dimensions.
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1702S. Sewall Diary in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1879) 5th Ser. VI. 65 Mr. Nehemiah Walter marries Mr. Sam Sewall and Mrs. Rebekah Dudley, in the Dining Room Chamber about 8. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. I. 53 Mrs. Tabitha's favourite dog Chowder..set upon him at once, and drove him up stairs to the dining-room door. 1788Grose Dict. Vulgar T. (ed. 2), Dining room post, a mode of stealing in houses that let lodgings, by rogues pretending to be postmen, who send up sham letters to the lodgers, and, whilst waiting in the entry for the postage, go into the first room they see open, and rob it. 1828H. G. Lewis Let. 14 Oct. in J. Constable Corr. (1966) IV. 75 The only convenient place to fix the column, will be within the fence, before the old dining room windows. 1883Heal & Son Catal.: Dining Room Furnit. 181 (caption) Dining room and library chairs. 1935A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 31/2 Dining room furniture, the teeth. 1977Washington Post 14 Oct. (Weekend Suppl.) 3/1 From his command post—the dining-room table of a Suitland apartment—Dobson, a mere yeoman in the Coast Guard's office of ocean policy, has altered history. |