porter-room

Updated: May 23, 2025

The grand jury are to dine there, and already the knives and forks are laid out upon the long deal table. The little coffee-room so called, though whiskey-room, or punch-room, or porter-room would be much the more appropriate name, unless indeed there is a kind of "lucus a non lucendo" propriety in the appellation is full nearly to suffocation.

Anthony Trollope - The Macdermots of Ballycloran