refectory
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The oak refectory tables and benches, crafted by Robert "Mouseman" Thompson and featuring his trademark mice carvings, had been donated by former pupils.
From BBC • Nov. 23, 2025
What is the purpose of a room called a refectory?
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2023
The painting, in oil on canvas, was commissioned by her own convent of Santa Caterina; once completed, it was hung on the nuns’ refectory wall.
From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2019
There’s chili cooking on the refectory tables onstage, for the audience’s consumption at intermission.
From New York Times • Apr. 8, 2019
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.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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