chapter house
Noun
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Noun
chapter house (plural chapter houses)
- A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place.
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, "Journey from London to the Land's End":
- The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference.
- 1724, Daniel Defoe, "Journey from London to the Land's End":
- A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place.
- 1929 Sep. 23, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732856,00.html New Plays in Manhattan]," Time:
- At the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass.
- 1929 Sep. 23, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,732856,00.html New Plays in Manhattan]," Time:
- (building used by a sorority or fraternity) Greek house
- French: salle capitulaire
- German: Kapitelsaal
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