refectory
noun
re·fec·to·ry
ri-ˈfek-t(ə-)rē 
plural refectories
: a dining hall (as in a monastery or college)
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The university completed some $1 million in improvements to the refectory’s basement and ground floor in 2022 and 2023, but did not install the drive.
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Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 19 May 2024
That masterpiece is located in the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
The original is still in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
The monastery included a church, refectory, cisterns and cells for the monks, according to a statement by state news agency WAM.
—Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
In a loft, for example, decorators might resort to installing massive sectionals and vast refectory-size slab dining tables, but that is neither the Isaac-sons’ nor New Orleans’s style; the project required finesse.
—ELLE Decor, 21 Sep. 2022
The iconic tableau, which attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors annually before the pandemic, is housed in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
—CNN, 29 June 2022
Until the fall of the Venetian Republic, the painter’s masterpiece, The Wedding Feast at Cana, hung in the refectory at the monastery.
—Max Vadukul. Styled By Nicoletta Santoro., Town & Country, 12 June 2022
The refectory had been converted into sleeping quarters, and dozens of mattresses covered the dining tables.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 19 May 2024
That masterpiece is located in the refectory of the Santa Maria delle Grazie monastery in Milan, which has been a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1980.
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024
The original is still in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
—Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 10 May 2023
The monastery included a church, refectory, cisterns and cells for the monks, according to a statement by state news agency WAM.
—Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 4 Nov. 2022
In a loft, for example, decorators might resort to installing massive sectionals and vast refectory-size slab dining tables, but that is neither the Isaac-sons’ nor New Orleans’s style; the project required finesse.
—ELLE Decor, 21 Sep. 2022
The iconic tableau, which attracted hundreds of thousands of visitors annually before the pandemic, is housed in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy.
—CNN, 29 June 2022
Until the fall of the Venetian Republic, the painter’s masterpiece, The Wedding Feast at Cana, hung in the refectory at the monastery.
—Max Vadukul. Styled By Nicoletta Santoro., Town & Country, 12 June 2022
The refectory had been converted into sleeping quarters, and dozens of mattresses covered the dining tables.
—Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 2 May 2022
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