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Mess hall   /mɛs hɔl/   Listen
Mess hall

noun
1.
A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax.  Synonym: mess.





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"Mess hall" Quotes from Famous Books



... West Point in the early sixties was utterly unlike the West Point of to-day, and no worse than a dozen of our greatest colleges. The corps still had its tales and traditions of the old time Fourth-of-July dinners at the mess hall, when everybody made a dash for the decanters and drank everything in sight. It was the only day in the year on which wine was served. It was in my time the invariable custom for the superintendent to receive ...
— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King
... dinin' room. Not on Cupid's account neither; he'd got civilized enough to stand for Cupid bein' treated like a dog by this time; but it was me he was scared of, an' I sensed it, an' refused to feed with him at all unless it would be in the main mess hall, an' Jessamie voted with me; so Bill ...
— Happy Hawkins • Robert Alexander Wason


Words linked to "Mess hall" :   mess, dining room, officer's mess, armed forces, military, armed services, dining-room, military machine, war machine, training table


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