refectory
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What is the purpose of a room called a refectory?
From Slate • Dec. 18, 2023
Cardinal Lajolo added that especially after the scare in Santa Marta, the pope no longer ate in the refectory with the other priests.
From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2020
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
Another Jesuit, Father Michael O'Sullivan, met him briefly in the refectory one evening during that visit.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2018
Every six or seven days, the same two pallid casualty assistance officers enter the refectory, and four hundred faces go ashen from the effort of not turning to watch.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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