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cenacle

cenacle

See also: cénacle

English

Noun

cenacle ‎(plural cenacles)

a dining room, especially one on an upper floor (traditionally the room in which the Last Supper took place)
(by extension) a small circle or gathering of specialists (writers etc); a clique
- 1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus Puerisque:
  I remember an anecdote of a well-known French theorist, who was debating a point eagerly in his cenacle. It was objected against him that he had never experienced love.