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ˈpump-room
A room or building where a pump is worked; spec. a place at a spa where the medicinal water is dispensed for drinking, etc.
The latter use arose at the King's Bath in Bath (England) where early in the 18th c. a building was erected for the shelter of the users (drinkers and bathers) of the water, which was supplied from the cisterns by pumping; the buildings were in course of time elaborated, features of the Kursaal being added; the name has been adopted and applied to buildings serving the same purpose at other spas.
[1707W. Oliver Pract. Diss. Bath-Waters v. (1719) 68 The Inconveniencies [at Bath]..are much less, since the erecting a new Pump, and a convenient warm and dry Gallery to walk in. ]1742–9J. Wood Descr. Bath (1765) I. ii. xi. 222 As the Passage on that Side the Bath was no more than nine Feet broad, the Corporation resolved [c 1704] to place the Pump Room over it. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. 26 Apr. i, The pump-room which is crowded like a Welsh fair. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) III. 68/2 (Bath) At the King's bath is a handsome pump-room, where the gentlemen and ladies go in a morning to drink the waters. 1828Orig. Bath Guide 26 The Great Pump-room is 60 feet long... In the centre of the south-side is the pump. 1838Murray's Handbk. N. Germ. 407/2 Dr. Struve's establishment [at Dresden]..consists of baths and a pump-room. c1900Guide Buxton 12 The chalybeate water is also obtained at the Pump Room. At the western end of the Pump Room is the Public Pump, which is supplied from the same spring. |