billiardroom

He had about given up, as it was getting toward late afternoon, when, as he came out of a billiardroom, where the bully was in the habit of spending much of his time, Tom saw the lad of whom he was in search.

Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice, or, the Wreck of the Airship Victor [pseud.] Appleton

Dungory, Mr. Adair, and Mr. Harding: the other gentlemen -- the baronets and Messrs. Ryan and Lynch -- preferring smoke and drink to chatter and oblique glances in the direction of ankle-concealing skirts, went up to the billiardroom.

Muslin 1892

“Besides, I’ve routed half a dozen men out of the billiardroom, more than once,” he complained irrelevantly, wiping the moisture from his brow.

Maurice Guest 2003