combination room

British  

noun

1. (at Cambridge University) a common room

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Example Sentences

A little group of chatty dons came towards him from the combination room, across the sacred grass, one of them in all the bravery of a scarlet gown, and passed out through the gate.

From Peter Binney A Novel by Marshall, Archibald

In this there is a beautiful Masters’ gallery, panelled, with a richly-moulded ceiling; it is now used as a combination room or fellows’ common-room.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 1 "Calhoun" to "Camoens" by Various

The bedrooms were also studies; at Oxford there was no general sitting-room, except in monastic colleges, though Cambridge College statutes speak of a "parlura," corresponding to the modern parlour or combination room.

From Life in the Medieval University by Rait, Robert S.

Presently they would withdraw processionally to the combination room....

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

In the combination room, afterward, I met most agreeably Mr. Trevelyan, M.P., a nephew of Macaulay, who has written an admirable biography of his uncle.

From Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by White, Andrew Dickson