long room

noun

An assembly room.

First used 17th c.

Meanings

nounlong room (plural long rooms)

plural long rooms

  1. An assembly room.First known use 17th c.

    If our hero, in the long-room, chanced to quit one of the moralists, with whom he had been engaged in conversation, he was immediately accosted by a number of the opposite faction […].

    1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC
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