: a small restaurant or café that typically serves a variety of teas as well as coffee and light meals
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For other girls, the clubs led them into business, for example as owners of tearooms, as well into work as journalists and librarians.
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 July 2025
Boat trips are also available from the Old Boat House on Muckross Lake to Dinis Peninsula, where the 18th-century tearoom Dinis Cottage is still serving snacks and drinks, near Old Weir Bridge, which crosses a spot where all three Lakes of Killarney converge: the Meeting of the Waters.
—Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025
The tearoom sits next-door to sister restaurant Max and Tilly's, a gastropub that opened last fall specializing in fish and chips and other British fare.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
In the 1920s, lesbians in New York City flocked to 129 MacDougal Street, a tearoom in the heart of Greenwich Village, for conversation and camaraderie.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
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Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 25 July 2025
Boat trips are also available from the Old Boat House on Muckross Lake to Dinis Peninsula, where the 18th-century tearoom Dinis Cottage is still serving snacks and drinks, near Old Weir Bridge, which crosses a spot where all three Lakes of Killarney converge: the Meeting of the Waters.
—Andrea Bussell, Travel + Leisure, 7 July 2025
The tearoom sits next-door to sister restaurant Max and Tilly's, a gastropub that opened last fall specializing in fish and chips and other British fare.
—Bradley Hohulin, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
In the 1920s, lesbians in New York City flocked to 129 MacDougal Street, a tearoom in the heart of Greenwich Village, for conversation and camaraderie.
—Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
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“Tearoom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tearoom. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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tearoom
noun
tea·room
ˈtē-ˌrüm 
-ˌru̇m
: a restaurant serving light meals
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