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plural chapter houses
A building attached to a cathedral, church, or monastery and used as a meeting place. quotations examples
The cloister, and the chapter-house adjoining to the church, are the finest here of any I have seen in England; the latter is octagon, or eight-square, and is 150 feet in its circumference.
1724, Daniel Defoe, Journey from London to the Land's End
In the center lay the broad Abbey buildings, with church and cloisters, hospitium, chapter-house and frater-house, all buzzing with a busy life.
1906, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 2, in Sir Nigel
A building used by a sorority or fraternity as a residence or meeting place. quotations examples
At the house-party herein represented a murder is done, and the locale of the deed is a chapter house on the pleasant campus at Williamston, Mass.
1929 September 23, “New Plays in Manhattan”, in Time