billiard room

noun — 2 senses

billiard room

nounalso spelled billiard-room

1

A room, usually in a house or hotel, in which there is a billiard table.

billiard-room

noun

1

Dated Dated form of billiard room.

The drawing-room had been modernized, and contrasted ill with an ancient paneled billiard-room, through which one had to pass ere it was entered.1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter X, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 197:
[…] who hate living in camp (though they have a club-house), and miss the billiard-rooms, flirtations with pretty confectioneresses and milliners […]1857, Punch:

2 more examples

The game between Hargate and Lord Dreever was still in progress when Jimmy returned to the billiard-room.1910, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 17, in The Intrusion of Jimmy:
Finally they retired, did you not? said Tetty. / We did indeed, said Goff, we retired to the billiard-room, for a game of slosh.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:

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