refectory
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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
Another Jesuit, Father Michael O'Sullivan, met him briefly in the refectory one evening during that visit.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2018
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
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