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  • noun Alternative form of pump room.

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Examples

  • On being executive chef at McDonald's: My favorite entree at the Pump Room was a complicated mixed sautE, loin of antelope and veal medallions.

    He Put Deluxe In The Arch 2008

  • The dapper fellow, who estimated that he seated more than half a million diners in his career, owned more than 50 tuxedos and famously kept his cool when Frank Sinatra threw spaghetti at him at Chicago's Pump Room restaurant.

    The Daily Goodbye 2010

  • But instead of staying in Grant Park and the streets with the movement, they ensconsed themselves at the posh Ambassador East Hotel and held court in the expensive Pump Room restaurant, more fun than fleeing tear gas and billy clubs.

    Ron Radosh » Reading “Ramparts” in the 21st Century: A Look Back at the 60’s Major Left-wing Magazine 2010

  • Still relatively new to the UK, she worked as a waitress in the Pump Room restaurant in Bath.

    How to confirm if a cat's dead. Glyn Davies 2008

  • My Lady Yarmouth has been trumpeting your praises at the Pump Room.

    The Virginians 2006

  • He -- one night he -- we were in Chicago at the Pump Room.

    CNN Transcript Feb 16, 2002 2002

  • He released her hand and took his leave of the others, gathered the comte, and left the Pump Room.

    The Seduction Of Sara Hawkins, Karen 2001

  • He stood in the Pump Room early one morning — fashionably early — conversing with a few newly made acquaintances and amusing himself with observing the distaste with which those who drank the waters raised their glasses to their lips.

    Dancing with Clara Balogh, Mary 1993

  • He looked even more handsome and virile sitting in her drawing room than he did in the Pump Room.

    Dancing with Clara Balogh, Mary 1993

  • She had been courteous when he had arranged an introduction to her at the Upper Assembly Rooms one afternoon, and had appeared quite ready to converse with him for a few minutes during each morning after that at the Pump Room.

    Dancing with Clara Balogh, Mary 1993

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