billiard-room

plural billiard-rooms

1. datedDated form of billiard room.

   The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room.

   1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in The Intrusion of Jimmy

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   The drawing-room had been modernized, and contrasted ill with an ancient paneled billiard-room, through which one had to pass ere it was entered.

   1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 197

   […] who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners […]

   1857, Punch

   Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. / We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.

   1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC