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Definition of Pump room
1. Noun. A pump house at a spa where medicinal waters are pumped and where patrons gather.
Group relationships: Spa, Watering Hole, Watering Place
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pump Room
Literary usage of Pump room
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of Travels in England, Holland and Scotland, and of Two Passages by Benjamin Silliman (1820)
"The great pump-room—The great bath— Heat of the water—Promiscuous ... We went
into the great pump-room. This is a large and handsome apartment, ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1844)
"TALES OF THE pump room.1 No. VIII. THE OPERA SINGER. BARON Martinon, who in former
times had owed Doctor Lange deep professional obligations, received him ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1843)
"TALES OF THE PUMP-ROOM. No. VII.—THE WALTZ. " Voulez vous danser, mademoiselle !"
ANO.V. I HAVE little claim, I fear, to the title of a philosopher, ..."
4. The Metropolitan (1842)
"Tableaux Vivans, 133. i Tales of the Pump-room, 79, 180. Three Friends, 360.
Tower of the Temple, 307. Universal Voice, The, 194. ..."
5. The Wits and Beaux of Society by A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton (1871)
"Improvements in the Pump-room, &c.—A Public Benefactor.—Life at Bath in Nash's
time.—A Compact with the Duke of Beaufort.—Gaming at Bath. ..."
6. The Royal Academy of Arts: A Complete Dictionary of Contributors and Their ...by Algernon Graves by Algernon Graves (1906)
"67 The old Pump-room, Bath. "The people say here, be whatever your case, You are
sure to get well if you come to this place." 110 The Judgment of Paris. ..."
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