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

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

The plantings had, by then, expanded from the hothouse to a plot of land by the abbey—a twenty-foot-by-hundred-foot rectangle of loam that bordered the refectory, visible from his room.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee