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plural cookrooms
(India, historical) A kitchen or room for cookery. quotations
[…] there is a cookroom and privy in the rear of the building, the latter being connected with the hospital by a covered passage.
1855, Pharoah and Co, A Gazetteer of Southern India, page 553
The galley or caboose of a ship. quotations examples
[…] in all their Ships (for the most Part) the Cook-rooms are built in their Forecastles, contrary to that which hath been anciently used.
c. 1611, Walter Raleigh, Observations on the Navy and Sea Service