bread room

In medieval times, a room fitted with shelves for loaves of bread and biscuits, and bins for flour and confectionery; was part of the buttery.

References in classic literature

And, first, I found that all the ship's provisions were dry and untouched by the water, and being very well disposed to eat, I went to the bread room and filled my pockets with biscuit, and ate it as I went about other things, for I had no time to lose.

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Before that, in 1810, the school opened a contract with the Birmingham Flour & Bread Co., and the alluring smell of freshly made loaves no longer wafted up from the bread room. It was turned into a meeting-room instead.

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