combination-roomn.
The name given in the university of Cambridge (England) to the college parlour where the fellows meet after dinner, elsewhere called common room n.
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common chamber1668
combination-room1675
common room1683
senior common-room1774
J.C.R.1892
middle common room1958
common area1996
1675 Accts. Trin. Coll. Cambr. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 380 (Of S. Catharine's Hall), The Combination Room.
1685–86 Hist. Queen's Coll. Cambr. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 49 Wainscotting and adorning the Combination Room.
1693 Building Accts. Clare Hall in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 380 The Combination dineing room.
1715 H. Prideaux Articles Reform. Univ. vi, in Life H. Prideaux (1748) 202 That, where there are common-fire-rooms, or combination-rooms, in any College or Hall, they be all shut up at ten at night.
1719 J. Covel Master of Christ's Coll. (Willis & Clark III. 380) The common Combination Room.
1830 J. H. Monk Life R. Bentley viii. 172 ‘The Combination room,’ where the society are in the habit of meeting after dinner.
1889 Commemoration Feast, Trin. Coll. Cambr. 9 Dec. At the conclusion of dinner Tea and Coffee will be served in the Large Combination Room.
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