refectory


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a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)

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The odour which now filled the refectory was scarcely more appetising than that which had regaled our nostrils at breakfast: the dinner was served in two huge tin-plated vessels, whence rose a strong steam redolent of rancid fat.
One of the maitres d'hotel, the first in rank, touched one of the guards, who was snoring on his bench, slightly with his wand; he even carried his kindness so far as to place the halbert which stood against the wall in the hands of the man stupid with sleep, after which the soldier, without explanation, escorted the viande of Monsieur to the refectory, preceded by a page and the two maitres d'hotel.
As the Prior finished, a door at the lower end of the refectory swung open, and in came Sir Richard, with folded hands and head bowed upon his breast.
A classroom, refectory and boot room will be demolished at a college after the applicant was told by council officers it did not need to seek planning permission to carry out the work.
Mr Mogale's words followed a break-in incident at Seepapitso Senior Secondary School recently, where the suspects are alleged to have gained access into four storerooms and a cold room at the refectory, and obtained food stock meant for the pupils.
AMAJOR piece of conservation work has started on a tapestry that hangs in the Refectory Cafe of Chester Cathedral.
The school's new PS4.2m-build opened in December and houses a new sixth-form centre, refectory and 600-seat auditorium, not just for the use of pupils but the wider local community.
And on November 17, there will be an opportunity to see inside the Refectory Library, which has been home to the Cathedral's historic book collection since the late 17th Century and is itself described as "stunning".
NORTHERN Monk Refectory MCR has thrown open its doors to Manchester customers for the first time.
Members of Huddersfield College of Technology Students' Union responded to the decision by the college's principal, Dr WE Scott, to close their coffee bar by holding a token protest march to the college refectory.
In Chapter 1, Hiller introduces the tradition of Last Supper paintings in Italy, discussing the handful of Italian non-refectory images, both inside Florence (in the baptistery vault) and the handful of early refectory images outside Florence, painted in the early decades of the fourteenth century.
Their libraries were extensive and the refectory reading generally sophisticated.
NEWMARKET 2.25 Night Song 3.00 Proud Chieftain 3.35 Ihtimal 4.10 Democretes 4.45 Refectory 5.20 Top Notch Tonto 5.55 Waterclock.
The Henley Green college is undergoing a PS7 million rebuilding and modernisation programme to improve the facilities, including a refurbishment of the refectory.