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dining hall

noun

a large room in which meals are served to members of a special group and their guests, as to the students and faculty of a college.

First recorded in 1660–70

“Check the dining hall,” a young woman exclaimed, waving to her left, and a dozen persons surged in that direction.

Every day that goes by is a day a survivor has to sit in the dining hall with [his or her] perpetrator.

The dining hall, it seemed, had been put to more use than the gymnasium.

All of us were packed together into a fifty-man dining hall.

As she waited for her hearing, Sclove saw her attacker around campus, in the library and in the dining hall.

The old dining-hall had shared in the general decay, and been shorn of all its ancient honours.

But she gazes beyond the salon, back into the big dining hall, where the white crepe myrtle grows.

Not till Felix comes to her in the chamber above the dining hall—there where that trumpet vine hangs—comes to say good-by to her.

Dr. Ashton's included what had been the common parlour and the dining-hall of the whole body.

Jeanne took the old man's arm, and they went into the dining-hall, where he sunk into his armchair.

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