Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A restaurant or shop serving tea and other refreshments. Also called teashop.
Wiktionary
- n. alternative spelling of tea room.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a restaurant where tea and light meals are available
Examples
“A precursor to the nightclubs of the 1920s, the tearoom was the place not only to be seen but to learn the latest ragtime dances or the supremely naughty Argentine tango.”
“Today, the tearoom is a time-capsule of the Victorian age.”
“She played in the Driskill Hotel's tearoom, which is small but very fancy, and everyone sat on the floor and paid rapt attention.”
“Kincaid had to admit the tearoom was a charming enough place, a warm retreat with heavy oak furniture and bright Blue Calico tea services, but the drawing of Alice in Wonderland on the restaurant’s paper menus made him think of Vic.”
“Running down the beer stocks, reducing the catering to a "tearoom" with snacks and cakes, closing the club before golfers had finished playing and reducing the space for club notices were among the list of complaints from the long suffering players.”
“The tearoom was a place for everything new, and oriental and African philosophies were very interesting for a new democracy.”
“Nelson's already much talked-about installation, which opens to the public this Saturday, takes the visitor through the front door of the elegant, colonnaded 19th-century former tearoom that forms Britain's official pavilion and plunges them into a disorienting, dusty, crepuscular world full of labyrinthine passages, false walls and shoulder-hunchingly low ceilings.”
“There was a swimming pool, a cinema and a tearoom where Hitler would eat cake, and even a vegetable garden for his awkward meals.”
The Guardian: From Hitler to Gaddafi: dictators and their bunkers
“Are their Lordships struggling to find space in the tearoom or short of sunny spots to sip G&Ts on the terrace?”
“Our waiter is bemused by our request and allows us to use the tearoom for our photography session.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tearoom’.
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extra room
An add-on to Trivet's list elbow room and Lampbane's list 2BDRM W/VU that tries not to duplicate Trivet's and Lampbane's existing rooms. Virtual, allegorical and proverbial rooms accepted.
scullery, suite, porch, screened porch, breakfast room, atheneum, attic, hall, dressing room, passageway, corridor, fusuma and 126 more...
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tea phrases /words
everything tea
Abyssinian tea, afternoon t, Algerian tea, Appalachian tea, Arabian tea, Australian tea, Barbary tea, Bencoolen tea, Blue Mountain tea, Botany Bay tea, Bourbon tea, Brazil tea and 294 more...
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The Way of Tea
All things tea (lingo, paraphernalia, types).
high tea, meat tea, four o'clock tea, five o'clock tea, tea party, teapoy, tea service, tea set, tea tray, teapot, teakettle, tea urn and 150 more...
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You Are Where You Eat
diner, brasserie, rotisserie, bistro, cafeteria, canteen, grillroom, steakhouse, teahouse, cafe, chophouse, greasy spoon and 22 more...
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