combination room
Britishnoun
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On the west side is the hall, dating from 1743, and the modern combination room, containing a curious old semi-circular table, with a counter-balance railway for passing the wine from one corner to the other.
From Beautiful Britain—Cambridge by Home, Gordon
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
Herkomer's portrait is in Pembroke College; and Mogford's, painted in 1851, is in the combination room of St John's.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
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.
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
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