(n.) A vessel used by soldiers for carrying water, liquor, or other drink.
(n.) The sutler's shop in a garrison; also, a chest containing culinary and other vessels for officers.
Example Sentences:
(1) 93% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 84%) felt that involuntary smoking should be restricted in the workplace and 99% (non-smokers 99%, smokers 97%) felt that it should be restricted in the canteens.
(2) I will not be alone in watching closely to see what difference – if any – it makes to have a (highly competent) woman at the helm of an organisation which remains, with its notorious “canteen culture”, still a boys’ club in so many ways.
(3) When he came to the canteen at the Old Vic, people were desperately scanning their brains to think of something intellectual to talk to him about.
(4) Across town in Le Central restaurant, nicknamed Hollande's canteen, the atmosphere is jovial.
(5) From the period of October 1987 to January 1988, 9 samples were taken from 16 workers in company canteens situated in the Sienna area.
(6) But, desperate to court Le Pen's voters, he later seized on it, stressing in rousing speeches at campaign rallies that halal meat options should not be available in state school canteens.
(7) A quarter of these epidemics developed in works canteens and half the affected subjects were ill.
(8) The Ritz hotel in Barcelona is renamed Hotel Gastronómico No 1 and serves as a workers’ canteen.
(9) Each movie group – Gone Girl, The Imitation Game, Selma, etc – sits defensively together, sort of like high-school cliques in the canteen of an 80s teen movie, and those proud, defiant smiles they managed to maintain for TV have long since wobbled away a bit.
(10) The inspection showed that the hygienic condition of 14 canteens (40%) was unsatisfactory.
(11) The present paper deals with a method that permits to evaluate the nutritional structure of all-day canteen feeding by means of a computer program based on the dishes actually delivered by the canteen.
(12) Fastforward to 2005, and the Gate Gourmet workforce – again, mostly female and Asian – were dismissed after assembling in the canteen to question the company's employment policies and then refusing to go back to work.
(13) During the rebellion by Tory MPs on the European Union bill last week, Lib Dem ministers sat eating a canteen supper while they waited for the vote.
(14) I think Sanders will win Iowa and New Hampshire.” Clinton will kickstart what she hopes is her year of destiny (and which will also include a second grandchild) at a school canteen in Concord, New Hampshire, on Sunday, followed by visits to Iowa – where the first Democratic caucus is held next month – and Las Vegas.
(15) But the estates he inherited from his father in 1979 when he became the 6th Duke of Westminster certainly furnished the equivalent of many canteens of silverware.
(16) The number of pupils receiving help with food and similar issues had increased threefold in a year, Goddard said, with increasing numbers staying almost until the school canteen closed at 8.30pm to stay warm or eat.
(17) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
(18) The Ofsted report says that boys and girls eat lunch in separate sittings, although it puts this down to the small size of the canteen.
(19) In one incident, students poured water on the twins in the canteen.
(20) I was born and raised here, and until recently I had never heard of a problem with different school meal options for Muslim and Jewish children who don’t eat pork.” Back in Chilly-Mazarin, Anouar Briki, who works in construction and was born in Nice, is pondering what to tell his two daughters, aged six and nine, about how to deal with the end of pork-free meals in the canteen.
Refectory
Definition:
(n.) A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall in monasteries or convents.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2004, the Albanian artist Anri Sala made one of the best video shows I have ever seen, in the enormous medieval refectory of the Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris.
(2) The iodine contents of refectory meals in a university were 47-203 micrograms (mean; 113 micrograms) per meal and those of lunches in two elementary schools were 25-31 micrograms (mean; 27 micrograms) and 18-43 micrograms (mean; 36 micrograms) per lunch, respectively.
(3) Outside the chapel, the strains of The Stripper gave way to Bring Me Sunshine as the police, in their final meeting with Biggs, handled the traffic and the mourners headed down the road to the Refectory bar.
(4) Naked bulbs sit in glass lantern boxes on the walls; tiny pewter plates are laid on light oak refectory tables.
(5) On the second floor the lounge has comfortable chairs, sofa, widescreen HD TV, high tables and stools, a pool table, and pictures of players, while the refectory has a 56-seat auditorium where the squad watch training clips filmed by a pitch-side weather-proof cart that can be stopped during a session for Manuel Pellegrini, the manager, to offer instructions.
(6) Five hundred ninety-eight public catering service units have been inspected in restaurants, hotels, school-refectories, factories, hospitals and social houses; 2,097 bacteriological examinations by agar-contact plates and swabs were carried out; 118 preserved-food temperatures were measured, especially in deep-frozen and cooked food; 70 food specimens were tested to search for Salmonella spp.
(7) The objectives were: obtaining sure information about health hazards in public catering services; checking structural characteristics and equipment of workrooms in restaurants, hotels and refectories; verifying food preparation and preservation methods; promoting health education to increase employees' awareness of hygiene-related problems.
(8) The cadets file into the refectory, say grace and eat their meal in silence.
(9) They want weddings and special events to take place in the north wing, which was once used as the Sheffield University refectory, and to create offices in the stables.
(10) … or a refectory-style restaurant Futuristic photographs show the Arsenal station, near the Bastille – closed in 1939 at the start of the second world war and never reopened – transformed into a gleaming swimming pool, theatre and concert hall, nightclub, art gallery and even refectory-style restaurant.