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tearoom

noun
/ˈtiˌɹum/US

Etymology

From tea + room. In reference to a lavatory, probably as a variant of t-room (“toilet room”).

  1. inherited from *(H)rewH-✻ — “to root; to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *rūmą✻ — “room”
  3. inherited from *rūm✻ — “room”
  4. inherited from rūm — “room, space”
  5. inherited from roum — “room, space”
  6. compounded as tearoom — “tea + room”

Definitions

  1. A café which serves tea, usually with light food.

    • At Rannoch, the platforms were rebuilt. Although the station tearoom couldn't be reached by rail during the closure, which started on October 5, it did help feed and sustain the workforce.

  2. A public lavatory.

    • I'm deathly afraid of the tearooms though, John. Some of my best friends have been entrapped and busted by the fuzz.
    • I had run into Grant in a tea-room—The busy main floor crapper—a few months earlier.

  3. A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc

    A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA