Obs. exc. arch. A room appropriated for eating; a dining-room.
1613. in Northern N. & Q., I. 74. Chalmeirs to be ordinaire eitting roomes.
1751. Smollett, Per. Pic. (1779), III. lxxvi. 27. He handed her down stairs into the eating-room.
1849. H. Mayo, Pop. Superst., vi. 87. He went to the hotel of M. Lafargue … and entered the eating room.
