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  • noun Plural form of tearoom.

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Examples

  • I wonder if any acts my friends or I have ever engaged in, in tearooms or outside them, would have antinomian claims to validity.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Google scholar: 2004

  • Soon after establishing the paper, she founded The Dawn Club and held meetings in various places, including Quong Tart's tea rooms in King St and George St. Apparently his tearooms were the site of many of Sydney's suffragette meetings in the 1885-8 era.

    Archive 2009-01-01 Hels 2009

  • Soon after establishing the paper, she founded The Dawn Club and held meetings in various places, including Quong Tart's tea rooms in King St and George St. Apparently his tearooms were the site of many of Sydney's suffragette meetings in the 1885-8 era.

    A History of Tea Rooms and the Suffragettes Hels 2009

  • This one is more about gay culture, and what drives many gay (and bi) men to public bathrooms (also known as tearooms), and other kinds of anonymous and/or casual sex.

    The gay life. 2007

  • "They were away from home all day, and the tearooms were a nice place to sit down, have a light lunch in pretty, feminine surroundings and rest up for an afternoon of further shopping."

    unknown title 2009

  • America's first roadside restaurants were rather sedate "tearooms" catering to the gentry, who owned most of the cars.

    At The Table On The Road 2008

  • In American newspapers, on Afghan television, in high-level political circles in Washington and in back-alley tearooms in Kabul, it seems that all the talk is about "The Talks."

    Afghanistan Peace Council Talks Lack Substance, Action The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Her view may not be to everyone's liking in the tearooms of the Commons, where rational debate often comes second to party politicking.

    Commons chaplain Rose Hudson-Wilkin warns rowdy MPs 2011

  • Having terrorized the local tearooms with the now-infamous line: We want the finest wines available to humanity.

    Cinematic Reflections Will Lyons 2011

  • Talking of tearooms, my very favourite bit in A Canterbury Tale is the exchange between the GIs in the tearoom, where one says he hates tea, the other says "it's not marijuana", the first says that he'd prefer marijuana and the second says "you'll have tea and like it!".

    The Great Liberal England Movie Dialogue Quiz 2009

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