Brewer's: Spence

A salle à manger, the room in which meals are taken, a dining-room; also a store-room or pantry. (Dispensorium, Old French dispense, a buttery.)

“The rest of the family held counsel in the spence.” —SirW.Scott: The Monastery, chap. xxx.

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