refectory

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Via Middle English refectori from Late Latin refectorium, from Latin reficere (“to remake, to rebuild”).

Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
But at that point Havelock the Dane removed his feet from the refectory table. — The best short stories of 1917, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
The refectory is used as a Unitarian chapel, and still keeps its fine pinnacled porch. — Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts, Rosalind Northcote

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