A public room where coffee and similar refreshments are served; now, generally, the name of the public dining-room in a hotel.
1712. Addison, Spect., No. 403, ¶ 10. The first Object I met in the Coffee-Room.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 386/2. In private house, bookseller’s shop, or coffee-room.
1881. Goldw. Smith, Lect. & Ess., 179. He sat down in the coffee room of the hotel.
