refectory

Via Middle English from Late Latin refectorium, from Latin reficere.

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈfɛkt(ə)ɹi/

refectory (plural refectories)

1. A dining-hall, especially in an institution such as a college or monastery.
   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.