dining halls
- plural of dining hall.
Example Sentences
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The article comments in depth on the proposal to establish dining-halls and kitchens for the use of poor people – a move the author commends, as long as certain principles are adhered to.
From The Guardian • Jun. 25, 2012
None of these five societies maintain what is called a "unitary household;" and in only two, Icaria and Amana, do the people eat in common dining-halls.
From The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Nordhoff, Charles
They were to eat in a room, as the outer dining-halls were all full.
From Pierre and Jean by Maupassant, Guy de
The ground floor below the dining-halls was a dark place given up to store-rooms and the servants' quarters, and below this again were cellars and grim dungeons, which could only be reached by trap-doors.
From Bayard: the Good Knight Without Fear and Without Reproach by Hare, Christopher
The several big palaces I had explored were mere living places, great dining-halls and sleeping apartments.
From The Time Machine by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
