Mess hall

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A military dining room or building on an army or marine base. US

    "In the mess hall, lunch was served in plastic bowls and paper cups: rice with ragù, sausage soup with day-old bread."

  2. 2
    a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax wordnet

Example

More examples

"In the mess hall, lunch was served in plastic bowls and paper cups: rice with ragù, sausage soup with day-old bread."

Etymology

From mess (“military meal”) + hall.