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refectory
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Definition:a dining hall at a priory or college
painting: by Francisco de Zurbaran (1633) St. Hugh of Cluny in the Refectory of the Carthusians
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The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Restored to its normal identity as a refectory, enormous cauldrons of porridge were being dispensed, together with bannocks baked on the hearth and spread with molasses.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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He was a youth of even temperament, who played in playtime, worked in school-hours, was attentive in class, slept well in the dormitory, and ate well in the refectory.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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an Irish abbot who turns up dead in the refectory, strangled with his own rosary.
Sue Monk Kidd. The Mermaid Chair, p.55 (2005)
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The nooks of ruin where the old monks had once had their refectories and gardens,
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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