senior common room
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One of his chairs was selected by the rector for the new RCA senior common room.
From The Guardian • May 30, 2013
He says in his memoir, without huge remorse, that he supposed his happiest years as an academic were at UCL, into whose senior common room, in Kermode's day, colleagues used to bring their bicycles.
From The Guardian • Aug. 20, 2010
But while this pleasant country house and senior common room life was going calmly on, what do we find happening in the history books?
From Medieval People by Power, Eileen Edna
And when the family circle palls there is the senior common room to fall back upon and the professors of Bordeaux to be celebrated in their turn.
From Medieval People by Power, Eileen Edna
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