tearoom

[ tee-room, -room ]

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noun

a room or shop where tea and other refreshments are served to customers.

Origin of tearoom

First recorded in 1770–80; tea + room

Words Nearby tearoom

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How to use tearoom in a sentence

Sometimes they are called "caves," occasionally "tearoom cabals."
The Strand Magazine, Volume XVII, February 1899, No. 98. | Various
Books were stored in two Ministers' rooms, the ladies' tearoom, and two committee rooms.
Report of the Chief Librarian | J. O. Wilson and General Assembly Library (New Zealand)
Soon Paul slipped down from the cushioned corner of a sofa, and went downstairs into the tearoom to be ready for Florence.
Ten Boys from Dickens | Kate Dickinson Sweetser
As I entered the vaulted passageway I saw that it was built about a court, and caught a glimpse of a pleasant tearoom.
Life in the War Zone | Gertrude Atherton
But he had no five sisters to make a sappy tearoom manager out of him.
Shorty McCabe on the Job | Sewell Ford

British Dictionary definitions for tearoom

tearoom

/ (ˈtiːˌruːm, -ˌrʊm) /

noun

another name for teashop
NZ a room in a school or university where hot drinks are served

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