common room

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common room (plural common rooms)

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  1. (UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand) A shared lounge found in dormitories, universities, military bases, etc.
    • 1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 10.”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, [], →OCLC, page 289:
      He was [] none of your free-and-easy companions, who would scrape their boots upon the fire-dogs in the common room, and be not at all particular on the subject of spittoons; []
    • 1950 June, N. H. Bousfield, “Angers, a French Provincial Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 371:
      Any expected permanent way checks are indicated daily on a map in the enginemen's common room.

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