A salle à manger, the room in which meals are taken, a diningroom; also a store-room or pantry. (Dispensorium, Old French dispense, a buttery.)
“The rest of the family held counsel in the spence.”—Sir W. Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxx.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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