combiˈnation-room
(also -chamber).
The name given in the university of Cambridge (England) to the college parlour where the fellows meet after dinner, elsewhere called common-room.
| 1650–51 Accts. Trin. Coll. Camb. (Willis & Clark III. 380), A Table for the Fellowes Combination Chamber. 1675 ibid. 380 (Of S. Catharine's Hall), The Combination Room. 1685–86 Hist. Queen's Coll. Camb. II. 49 (ibid.). Wainscotting and adorning the Combination Room. 1693 Building Accts. Clare Hall (ibid.), The Combination dineing room. 1715 Prideaux Reform. Two Univ. in Life (1748) 202 That, where there are common-fire-rooms, or combination-rooms, in any College or Hall, they be all shut up at ten at night. 1719 J. Covel Master of Christ's Coll. (Willis & Clark III. 380), The common Combination Room. 1830 Bp. Monk Life Bentley viii. 172 ‘The Combination room,’ where the society are in the habit of meeting after dinner. 1889 Commemoration Feast, Trin. Coll. Camb. 9 Dec., At the conclusion of dinner Tea and Coffee will be served in the Large Combination Room. |