Definition of mess hall
: a hall or building (as on an army post) in which mess is served
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Recent Examples of mess hall from the Web
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Rohwer had hundreds of barracks divided into blocks, each of which had a mess hall, a laundry facility, a latrine, and housing for families.
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Trump’s critics have never let him off the hook over military deferments that kept him from dining in a mess hall in Vietnam.
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The World Economic Forum, the nonprofit business leadership foundation, occupies one of these buildings, its former mess hall now a spick-and-span meeting space.
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Even the rations served in military mess halls have dramatically diminished in size and quality.
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From the grand dining room (formerly the mess hall) complete with a cozy fireplace and board games, to the porch’s rocking chairs and garden courtyard, the Lodge aims to provide old San Francisco hospitality to modern travelers.
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The city of Fort Thomas turned the mess hall into a community center.
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The camp has cabins and tents, a mess hall, a nature trail and a wheelchair-accessible, Olympic-size swimming pool.
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But the staff quarters are a genuine love boat: With 2,200 crew, the staff quarters are a village unto themselves, with cabins, bars, a mess hall, shop, and gym set across decks 0, 1, 2, 3, and 12.
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1821
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