Both Uses
infirmary
in
The Catcher in the Rye
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- He and I were sitting in the first two chairs outside the goddam infirmary, the day school opened, waiting for our physicals, and we sort of struck up this conversation about tennis.†
p. 146.5infirmary = a small facility where patients receive treatment
- Old Mr. Antolini felt his pulse and all, and then he took off his coat and put it over James Castle and carried him all the way over to the infirmary.
p. 226.9 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(infirmary) a small facility where patients receive treatment -- such as a room or two at a school as contrasted to a busy hospital or medical clinic
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)