refectory• The characters should be in a shabbyflat, seated at a refectorytable, facing the audience.• Fifteen serving staff work in the mainrefectory with four waitresses in the staff dining room.• We breakfasted in the small refectory of the abbot's guest house on light ale and spicedoatmealheated with boilingmilk.• The gala opening by Brian Blessed in 1999 was followed immediately by the start of work on a new studentrefectory.• Over the Time Lord's shoulder, Bernice saw that the refectory was full.• All had gone from there to the refectory.• The refectory where meals were served was still a bitdaunting.
Originrefectory
(1400-1500)Late Latinrefectorium, from Latinrefectus, past participle of reficere“to put back in good condition”