Meaning

4 senses
  1. A café which serves tea, usually with light food.

    a restaurant where tea and light meals are available

  2. (euphemistic, slang)A public lavatory.

  3. A public lavatory.

    (US, dated, euphemistic, slang)A meeting place for gay men.

  4. (Australia)A room in a workplace set aside for tea breaks, lunch breaks, snacking, etc; a break room.

Examples

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  1. I went into a tearoom, where I happened to see him.

    deIch ging in ein Café und traf ihn dort zufällig.

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  2. As I entered a tearoom, I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television.

    ruКогда я вошёл в чайную комнату, там было двое молодых людей, смотревших по телевизору борьбу.

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  3. As I entered the tearoom I found two young men watching a wrestling match on television.

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  4. Oleg and Rima were in a Victorian tearoom.

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  5. Antoine and Chantal are eating rhubarb cake with mint tea in the tearoom.

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Origin

From tea + room. In reference to a lavatory, probably as a variant of t-room (“toilet room

From tea + room. In reference to a lavatory, probably as a variant of t-room (“toilet room”).

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