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The building in which unmarried British army officers were quartered during the British Raj.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: India, historical
Examples
- 1966, Paul Scott, "The Jewel in the Crown" in The Raj Quartet, 1966-1975. Close by, but only to be glimpsed through the gateway in a high stucco wall, similarly shaded, is the bungalow once known as the chummery where three of four of Mr White's unmarried sub-divisional officers - usually Indians of the uncovenanted provincial civil service - used to live when not on tour in their own allotted areas of the district.
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The shared home of a group of men who are unmarried or working at a distance from their families.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Asia
Examples
- 1994, Business World, Vol. 14, Ananda Bazar Patrika Ltd., p. 159, https://books.google.ca/books?id=K6daAAAAYAAJ&q=%22chummeries%22&dq=%22chummeries%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8uLzritHNAhXBMGMKHZStD4EQ6AEIHjAA Chummeries are extremely conducive to the great yuppie pursuit of networking.
- 2007, Henry Jayasēna, The Play is the Thing, Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications, p. 27, https://books.google.ca/books?id=tKkLAQAAMAAJ&q=%22chummeries%22&dq=%22chummeries%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8uLzritHNAhXBMGMKHZStD4EQ6AEIMzAF Many of us being bachelors, lived in rented out dilapidated old houses which were called "chummeries". The men from Jaffna, whether married or not, also lived in their own chummeries—mostly around Wellawatte, Dehiwala and Ratmalana.
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