cenacle
Americannoun
noun
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a supper room, esp one on an upper floor
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(capital) the room in which the Last Supper took place
Etymology
Origin of cenacle
1375–1425; late Middle English < French cénacle < Latin cēnāculum top story, attic (originally, presumably, dining room), equivalent to cēnā ( re ) to dine (derivative of cēna dinner) + -culum -cle 2
Example Sentences
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Greif is the co-founder of the Brooklyn literary journal n+1, and he shares with his cenacle formidable powers of analysis, a coolly ironical worldview and a vaguely Marxist orientation.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2017
The only current thing that would resemble some sort of cenacle, or group, would be the Purple Fashion magazine people.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2012
I think a nowadays cenacle would be people who attend the same kind of events: a group of people being on the same P.R. listing.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2012
He had invited them to his cenacle in an "attempt to feel the pulse of young theological students."
From Time Magazine Archive
Our words sounding in the confessional are but the feeble echo of the voice of the Spirit of God that purified the Apostles in the cenacle of Jerusalem.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by Gibbons, James
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