pump room

noun

a room at a spa for drinking mineral waters.

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Origin of pump room

First recorded in 1735–45

Words nearby pump room

pump box, pump gun, pump iron, pump lung, pump priming, pump room, pump up, pump-action, pump-and-dump, pump-oxygenator, pumped storage

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Example sentences from the Web for pump room

He worked back across the side of the cellar, regained the passage, and returned to the pump-room.
The Pit Prop Syndicate|Freeman Wills Crofts
There is an old-fashioned solemnity over this Pump-room which speaks of the old classical taste p. 28over a hundred years ago.
Pickwickian Studies|Percy Fitzgerald
Never mind the pump-room now, unless you have found the sketch, as we may have that another time.
Dickens and His Illustrators|Frederic G. Kitton
Public receptions by the Giants in the pump-room every afternoon.
Boycotted|Talbot Baines Reed

But it was not for the purpose of providing you with tea and cakes that the Pump-room was founded.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 158, April 21, 1920|Various

British Dictionary definitions for pump room

pump room

noun

a building or room at a spa in which the water from a mineral spring may be drunk

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