Definition of "ballrooms" [ballrooms]

• Plural form of ballroom. (noun)

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• "This year the sessions on making and marketing cheeses, held in ballrooms at a Sheraton conference center, were overflowing with people looking more like well-heeled retirees who thought cheese might be easier to get into than wine."
• "On Lafayette Square she pined for Cleveland, in Cleveland she craved the refinements of Europe, and in English ballrooms she longed for the rusticity of Lake Sunapee."
• "But when British newspapers pounced upon the transgression, they scolded the lad less for his politics than his manners, taking deepest offense at his complaint about the “thimblefuls of ice cream and hard seed cakes” served in English ballrooms."