Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A room where tea is served.
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Examples
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I continued to loiter as Fred set off for Platform Three, and just then a neat little bottom tripped past, making for the tea-room, and I sauntered idly after it, curious to see if the front view lived up to the trim ankles and waist.
Watershed 2010
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At midnight the dance ended, and they went on to the Old Oak tea-room.
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Away from the BNP and the Woes of Brown (which sounds like an Aberfeldy tea-room or something) the other notable european result came in Scotland where the SNP's handsome victory (29-21 over Labour) confirmed that Labour can no longer automatically consider itself the natural governing party in Scotland.
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If foot-tapping and hand-sliding in a rest room is protected speech, isn't what ensues (tea-room trade, ie, gay sex) also protected speech?
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It ought to be put up on the wall of the Commons tea-room. posted by Bystander | 8:06 PM
I Bet A Few MPs Know What This Is About Now Bystander 2009
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The 'pub' photo is definitely not a pub, but a tea-room, for all the reasons already rehearsed.
Shutterbug Friday #2: England Swings . . . Kurt Hutton is There! 2009
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Away from the BNP and the Woes of Brown (which sounds like an Aberfeldy tea-room or something) the other notable european result came in Scotland where the SNP's handsome victory (29-21 over Labour) confirmed that Labour can no longer automatically consider itself the natural governing party in Scotland.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
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It ought to be put up on the wall of the Commons tea-room. posted by Bystander | 8:06 PM
Archive 2009-05-01 Bystander 2009
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It may not have done much for his tea-room popularity but then virtue is its own reward.
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Back to the tea-room: we could hear a piano in the background.
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