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Examples of mess hall in a Sentence
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Next to the airport check out tasting rooms inside old WWII-era mess halls, firehouses and hangar buildings.
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Jamie Moore, USA TODAY, 5 June 2024
On the battlefield, Black and white Marines fought side-by-side, but afterward the Marines separated to their segregated camps, with their own huts, kitchens and mess halls.
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Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 27 May 2024
Alas, Ted and Michael York are stuck debating the merits of Larry’s notions to conceive a dining area that’s part aristocratic quarters and part military mess hall.
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Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 8 Apr. 2024
The Eisenhower, a vast, 1,000-foot, 100,000-ton Nimitz-class carrier, has a crew of roughly 5,000 and is like a city on the sea, with sprawling aircraft hangars, mess halls and sleeping areas.
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Courtney Kube, NBC News, 4 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1821, in the meaning defined above
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“Mess hall.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mess%20hall. Accessed 7 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
mess hall
noun
: a hall or building (as on an army post) in which mess is served
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