pump-room

Mineral water hall

A pump-room is a room at a spa where visitors drink mineral water drawn from the source.

The term evokes 18th- and 19th-century English spa towns like Bath, where the pump-room served as a social gathering place: They met each morning at the pump-room to take the waters.

More generally, any room housing pumps or pumping equipment.

spa

Bath

Somerset spa city

springs · Regency · promenade · colonnade · Georgian · cure · hydropathy · invalids · taking the waters · assembly

mechanical

hydraulic

Relating to pressurized liquids

pipes · valves · pressure · engineering · industrial · boiler · cistern · maintenance · control · municipal

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SOCIAL FUNCTION (historical spa context)

pump-roomballroom

Venue for formal dances

gaming room · card room · assembly room · pleasure garden · tavern

SPACE TYPE (mechanical vs. inhabited)

pump-roomliving room

Home's social space

parlour · drawing room · sitting room · bedroom · lounge

social function at a resort

pump-roomsickroom

Room for the ailing

isolation ward · solitary cell · hermitage · bedchamber

Family

pump, room, pumps, pumped, pumping, rooms, roomed, rooming, roomy

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