pump roomn.
/ˈpʌmp ruːm/, /ˈpʌmp rʊm/, U.S. /ˈpəmp ˌrum/, /ˈpəmp ˌrʊm/ A room or building where a pump is housed or worked; spec. a place at a spa where the medicinal water is dispensed.The specific use arose at the King's Bath in Bath, England, where early in the 18th cent. 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 time elaborated, features such as an entertainment hall and various public rooms being added, and the name was afterwards adopted and applied to buildings serving the same purpose at other spas.
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1707 W. Oliver Pract. Diss. Bath Waters vii. 54 The Inconveniencies [at Bath]..are much less since the erecting a new Pump, and a convenient warm and dry Gallery to walk in.]
?1731 ‘Hurlo Thrumbo’ Merry-thought iv. 22 Written with a Pencil in the Pump-Room at Bath.
1737 Dis. Bath 13 To the Pump-room in the Morn we go To drink the Waters and remove some Woe.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 76 The Pump-room; which is crowded like a Welsh fair.
1797 Encycl. Brit. III. 68/2 At the King's bath is a handsome pump-room, where the gentlemen and ladies go in a morning to drink the waters.
1828 Orig. Bath Guide 26 The Great Pump-room is 60 feet long... In the centre of the south-side is the pump.
1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 372/1 Dr. Struve's establishment [at Dresden]..consists of baths and a pump-room.
1872 Harper's Mag. June 4/2 The Pump-room [sc. Trinkhalle at Baden-Baden], where the thirsty and the ailing go at stated hours to drink the waters, is a large and handsome building.
c1900 Guide 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.
1949 Our Industry (Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) (ed. 2) v. 173 The piping and the necessary valves in the tanks and pumprooms are arranged to permit..the transfer of cargo or water ballast from one tank to another.
1991 Here's Health Jan. 30/2 This beautiful little spa town with its Victorian and Edwardian architecture has a Pump Room offering sulphur, saline and magnesium water by the glass.
2006 People (Nexis) 28 May 23 More than 100 residents were left high and dry after copper piping was stripped from a basement pump room.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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