cenacle
Americannoun
noun
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a supper room, esp one on an upper floor
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(capital) the room in which the Last Supper took place
Etymology
Origin of cenacle
1375–1425; late Middle English < French cénacle < Latin cēnāculum top story, attic (originally, presumably, dining room), equivalent to cēnā ( re ) to dine (derivative of cēna dinner) + -culum -cle 2
Example Sentences
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Greif is the co-founder of the Brooklyn literary journal n+1, and he shares with his cenacle formidable powers of analysis, a coolly ironical worldview and a vaguely Marxist orientation.
From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2017
I have never really been part of a group, cenacle or even a milieu, or particular trade, or specific sphere, or maybe I didn't realize it.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2012
The only current thing that would resemble some sort of cenacle, or group, would be the Purple Fashion magazine people.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2012
Impatient as Teresa of Avila, yet descended from Philip Neri, saint of holy laughter, he would have men dissolve dissension in the cenacle of the human heart.
From Time Magazine Archive
He had studied with Liszt, although he was not a favorite of the master nor in his cenacle of worshipping pupils.
From Melomaniacs by Huneker, James
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