pump-room
pump-room is the alternative form of pump room.
Meaning of pump room
Noun
pump room (plural pump rooms)
- A room housing a pump, especially a room or structure at a spa where mineral water is drawn from a spring and consumed, formerly often serving as a venue for polite socializing and conversation.
- Among those who frequented the pump-room, was an old officer, whose temper, naturally impatient, was, by repeated attacks of the gout, which had almost deprived him of the use of his limbs, sublimated into a remarkable degree of virulence and perverseness […].1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 75, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
Forms of pump-room
| plural | pump-rooms |
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Questions about pump-room
- What is pump-room the alternative form of?
- Pump-room is the alternative form of pump room.
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