refectory

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

There, in the abbey’s refectory, the colors of the 16th-century “Last Supper” fresco by Andrea del Sarto are still bright, unlike those of Leonardo’s famous “Last Supper” in Milan.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2022

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

“You have minds,” Bastian murmurs one evening in the refectory, each boy hunching almost imperceptibly farther over his food as the commandant’s finger grazes the back of his uniform.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Designers are conjuring all kinds of nonkitchen-y arenas, like the refectories of old boarding schools, a signature of Christopher Peacock, the English-born kitchen designer once known for his all-white offerings.

From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2017

Groups are getting smaller and smaller, a dozen girls with a matron in a cottage, and hundreds of girls 'farmed out' with good, responsible women, instead of enormous refectories and dormitories and schoolrooms.

From The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne by Kathleen Thompson Norris

In the four refectories, where the soldiers dine, twelve in a mess, they are regularly served with soup, bouilli, a plate of vegetables, and a pint of unadulterated wine.

From Paris as It Was and as It Is by Francis W. Blagdon

The sports were more interesting than refectories and dormitories, but it seemed a little churlish to refuse and we went together.

From Memoirs of My Dead Life by George (George Augustus) Moore

"Why do you do it?" you ask the departmental chief, who apparently gets far more fun out of the contemplation of these refectories than out of the contemplation of premiums received and claims paid.

From Your United States Impressions of a first visit by Arnold Bennett