• pumproom,pump-room

pumproom (pluralpump rooms)

1. (sometimes capitalized) A room housing apump, especially a room or structure at aspa wheremineral water is drawn from a spring and consumed, formerly often serving as avenue forpolitesocializing and conversation.[from 18th c.]
   • 1751,[Tobias] Smollett, chapter 75, inThe Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume II, London: Harrison and Co., […],→OCLC:

     Among those who frequented thepump-room, was an old officer, whose temper, naturally impatient, was, by repeated attacks of the gout, which had almost deprived him of the use of his limbs, sublimated into a remarkable degree of virulence and perverseness[…].

   • 1836 March –1837 October,Charles Dickens, chapter 36, inThe Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London:Chapman and Hall, […], published1837,→OCLC:

     The GreatPump Room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars, and a music-gallery, and a Tompion clock, and a statue of Nash, and a golden inscription, to which all the water-drinkers should attend, for it appeals to them in the cause of a deserving charity.

   • 1847,Hans Christian Andersen, chapter 7, inMary Howitt, transl.,The True Story of My Life:

     [E]ven the German visitors at the baths honored me by drinking my health in thepump-room.

   • 2003 August 10, Jacqueline Friedrich, “Choice Tables: Sophisticated Repasts in Bath”, inNew York Times, retrieved9 October 2012:

     In the 18th and early 19th centuries, the beautiful people came here for the season, taking the waters, meeting for tea in thePump Room and for balls in the Assembly Rooms.

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