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refreshment rooms

refreshment rooms is the plural of refreshment room.

Meaning of refreshment room

Noun

refreshment room (plural refreshment rooms)

  1. (UK) A room that was once common at larger railway stations in Britain and the British Commonwealth for the purpose of serving food and drink to travellers.
    • But when his slender, big-wheeled engine had brought him as far as York, in a non-corridor compartment, his inside had begun to make urgent representations. So, to this day, the York refreshment room is extraordinary; the dining room is a regular banqueting hall.1941 August, C.Hamilton Ellis, “The English Station”, in Railway Magazine, page 356

Questions about refreshment rooms

What is refreshment rooms the plural of?
Refreshment rooms is the plural of refreshment room.

Words near refreshment rooms in the dictionary

  1. refreshings
  2. refreshment
  3. refreshment car
  4. refreshment cars
  5. refreshment room
  6. refreshment rooms
  7. Refreshment Sunday
  8. refreshments
  9. refresht
  10. refret
  11. refrets

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