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1612 J. Gordon Εἰρηνοκοινωνία sig. D4 The said Tertullian, in describing the forme of the publicke feasts of Christians after the which they did celebrate their holy Communion, calleth the place in which they did celebrate the same, Triclinium, which signifieth a Parlour, or Supping roome.

a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 148 A private Supping-roome.

1775 E. Barry Observ. Wines Ancients xii. 285 Each of them, on his arrival, was conveyed to the bath, before he entered the supping room.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. iii. xi. 282 And the Prince dismissed us with a grim bow, locking one door as he spoke, that into the supping-room, and the other through which we passed, after us.

1910 Chautauquan 59 372 Queen Mary's apartments consist of the audience-chamber, where probably her conversations with John Knox took place, her bed chamber from which opened her dressing room on the one side and the small supping room on the other.

2003 S. Millhauser King in Tree (2004) 131 By the light of her candle he saw with surprise that he was in the supping room.