Meaning of pump room | Babel Free

Definitions

A room housing a pump, especially a room or structure at a spa where mineral water is drawn from a spring and consumed, formerly often serving as a venue for polite socializing and conversation.

capitalized, sometimes

Examples

“Among those who frequented the pump-room, was an old officer, whose temper, naturally impatient, was, by repeated attacks of the gout, which had almost deprived him of the use of his limbs, sublimated into a remarkable degree of virulence and perverseness […].”

“The Great Pump Room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars, and a music-gallery, and a Tompion clock, and a statue of Nash, and a golden inscription, to which all the water-drinkers should attend, for it appeals to them in the cause of a deserving charity.”

“[E]ven the German visitors at the baths honored me by drinking my health in the pump-room.”

“In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the beautiful people came here for the season, taking the waters, meeting for tea in the Pump Room and for balls in the Assembly Rooms.”

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