tea room

See also: tearoom

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Noun

tea room (plural tea rooms)

  1. Alternative form of tearoom: a cafe or (in gay parlance only) a public lavatory.
    • 2025 July 23, Richard Foster, “Huddersfield's overdue makeover”, in RAIL, number 1040, page 36:
      And that's not all - the historic timber tea room has been dismantled to allow the platforms to be altered. [] The tea room - one of the few timber station buildings still in front line service - will then be painstakingly rebuilt, but in a slightly different position.