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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tearoom
noun
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▪ Barnsgate Manor has a 12 acre vineyard, a llama herd, donkeys, a museum, winery, tearooms and restaurant.
▪ Did operators of tearooms read those notes when no one claimed them?
▪ I often felt more inspired writing in a tearoom than in the newsroom.
▪ It was built to last, and the vaulted classrooms now serve as tearooms for any tourists intrepid enough to reach them.
▪ New facilities include a tearoom, shop, three holiday flats and a look-out room.
▪ No charge for shop or tearoom.
▪ There were hundreds of tearooms in Seoul in the sixties.
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tearoom

n. (alternative spelling of tea room English)

WordNet
tearoom

n. a restaurant where tea and light meals are available [syn: teashop, teahouse, tea parlor, tea parlour]

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Tearoom (UK and US)

A tearoom or tea shop is a small restaurant where beverages and light meals are served, having a sedate or subdued atmosphere. The term may also refer to a room dedicated to the serving of tea in a private house.

A customer may eat a cream tea (also known as Devonshire tea), consisting of a scone with jam and clotted cream, or a full afternoon tea of sandwiches, scones, and cake. Alternatively a high tea may be served, of hot savoury food as the final meal of the day. In Scotland teas are usually served with a variety of scones, pancakes, crumpets and other cakes.

In a related usage, a tearoom may be a room set aside in a workplace for workers to relax and specifically to take refreshment during work-breaks. Traditionally, a staff member serving food and beverages at work was called a tea lady.

Tearoom (disambiguation)

A tearoom or tea house is a venue centered on drinking tea.

Tearoom may also refer to:

  • Tearoom (U.K. and U.S.), small room or restaurant where beverages and light meals are served
  • Tea-room, gay slang referring to a venue where cottaging (public sex) occurs
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Usage examples of "tearoom".

Graville boasted two tearooms, one with an antique shop on the premises.

Tibetanswho frequented the grubby tearooms on Freak Street, watching the American hippies giggle over their hash yogurt, lusting after their clothes, their women, their entire culture.

I also noticed the little stack of candy wrappers you left by your place at the table in the tearoom at the historical society meeting.

Fanny made irresponsible promises to the poor man, and you're just as bad - with your jokes about tearooms and artichokes.