The name given in the university of Cambridge (England) to the college parlor where the fellows meet after dinner, elsewhere called COMMON-ROOM.
1650–51. Accts. Trin. Coll. Camb. (Willis & Clark, III. 380). A Table for the Fellowes Combination Chamber.
1675. (ibid., 380 Of S. Catharine’s Hall), The Combination Room.
1685–86. Hist. Queen’s Coll. Camb., II. 49. (ibid.) Wainscotting and adorning the Combination Room.
1693. Building Accts. Clare Hall (ibid.), The Combination dineing room.
1715. Prideaux, Reform. Two Univ., in Life (1748), 202. That, where there are common-fire-rooms, or combination-rooms, in any College or Hall, they be all shut up at ten at night.
1719. J. Covel, Master of Christ’s Coll. (Willis & Clark, III. 380), The common Combination Room.
1830. Bp. Monk, Life Bentley, viii. 172. ‘The Combination room,’ where the society are in the habit of meeting after dinner.
1889. Commemoration Feast, Trin. Coll. Camb., 9 Dec. At the conclusion of dinner Tea and Coffee will be served in the Large Combination Room.
