stolovayan.
/stəˈlɒvʌɪə/ A canteen, a cafeteria.
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kitchen tent1640
canteen1870
mess1886
NAAFI1927
stolovaya1943
cantina1959
1943 E. M. Almedingen Frossia ix. 329 It is dinner time. Come on, let us eat at the station stolovaya.
1976 ‘S. Harvester’ Siberian Road vii. 75 The swingdoors of the stolovaya shut behind the Russian.
1982 Spectator 27 Mar. 21/3 The food in a Russian stolovaya (or ‘diner’).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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