long room

long room (plural long rooms)

1. An assembly room. [from 17th c.]
   • 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

     If our hero, in the long-room, chanced to quit one of the moralists, with whom he had been engaged in conversation, he was immediately accosted by a number of the opposite faction […] .

Often used with reference to specific examples, chiefly the large hall in the Custom House, City of London where duties are paid; or the room through which the players walk to the field at Lord's cricket ground.

• Longmoor