refectory

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re·fec·to·ry

(rĭ-fĕk′tə-rē)

n. pl. re·fec·to·ries

A room where meals are served, especially in a college or other institution.

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refectory

(rɪˈfɛktərɪ; -trɪ)

n, pl -tories

a communal dining hall in a religious, academic, or other institution

[C15: from Late Latin refectōrium, from Latin refectus refreshed]

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re•fec•to•ry

(rɪˈfɛk tə ri)

n., pl. -ries.

a dining hall, esp. in a religious house.

[1475–85; < Late Latin refectōrium= Latin refec-, variant s. of reficere (see refect) + -tōrium -tory²]

refectory

1. cafeteria

2. A communal dining hall.

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Noun

refectory - a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)

dining-hall - a large room at a college or university; used especially for dining

Translations

غُرْفَة طَعام

jídelna

spisesal

Speisesaal

réfectoire

matsalur

refettorio

refektorius

ēdamzāleēdnīca

refektorium spisesal

refektár

yemekhane

寺院或学校的食堂

refectory

[rɪˈfektərɪ] N → refectorio m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

refectory

[rɪˈfɛktəri] n → réfectoire m

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

refectory

n (in college) → Mensa f; (in monastery) → Refektorium nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

refectory

[rɪˈfɛkt/ərɪ] n → refettorio

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

refectory

(rəˈfektəri) noun

a dining-hall for monks, students etc.

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The refectory was a great, low-ceiled, gloomy room; on two long tables smoked basins of something hot, which, however, to my dismay, sent forth an odour far from inviting.

Thanks being returned for what we had not got, and a second hymn chanted, the refectory was evacuated for the schoolroom.

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A bell, in fact, did ring; it announced that Madame had finished her toilette, and waited for Monsieur to give her his hand, and conduct her from the salon to the refectory.

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While the Knight was riding along the causeway to Emmet, a merry feast was toward in the refectory there.

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The hour therefore having arrived they all took their seats at a long table like a refectory one, for round or square table there was none in the inn, and the seat of honour at the head of it, though he was for refusing it, they assigned to Don Quixote, who desired the lady Micomicona to place herself by his side, as he was her protector.

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The corridor terminated in a hall, large, lofty, and square; a glass door on one side showed within a long narrow refectory, with tables, an armoire, and two lamps; it was empty; large glass doors, in front, opened on the playground and garden; a broad staircase ascended spirally on the opposite side; the remaining wall showed a pair of great folding-doors, now closed, and admitting: doubtless, to the classes.

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He was congratulating himself upon the enterprise which had turned the refectory, a cold stone room with pots on trestles, into the most comfortable room in the house.

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You yourself, brother Francis, have twice raised your voice, so it hath come to my ears, when the reader in the refectory hath been dealing with the lives of God's most blessed saints.

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It is certain that this monastery, which had a grand air, both as a church and as a seignory; that abbatial palace, where the bishops of Paris counted themselves happy if they could pass the night; that refectory, upon which the architect had bestowed the air, the beauty, and the rose window of a cathedral; that elegant chapel of the Virgin; that monumental dormitory; those vast gardens; that portcullis; that drawbridge; that envelope of battlements which notched to the eye the verdure of the surrounding meadows; those courtyards, where gleamed men at arms, intermingled with golden copes;--the whole grouped and clustered about three lofty spires, with round arches, well planted upon a Gothic apse, made a magnificent figure against the horizon.

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But here is a Guydo--the frame alone is worth pounds--which any lady might be proud to hang up--a suitable thing for what we call a refectory in a charitable institution, if any gentleman of the Corporation wished to show his munifi cence .

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This dear fellow, with the finest cut face I ever saw, a face in perfect drawing, leaves some laborious life and comes up here I don't know how many feet above the level of the sea, for no other purpose on earth (except enjoying himself, I hope, in a capital refectory) than to keep an hotel for idle poor devils like you and me, and leave the bill to our consciences!

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The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below.