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master’s level
Mar 9, 2007 14:22
17 yrs ago
English term

cotton diner

English Marketing Tourism & Travel Hotels
The hotel also offers the cotton diner and Regency buffet both of which have an enviable reputation for fine tasting homemade traditional dishes.

This is a 3* hotel in Bolton, U.K.
Responses
4 +4 name of a restaurant in the hotel.
3 +4 restaurant/ dining facility at the hotel
2 simply the name of this specific diner

Discussion

Ken Cox Mar 9, 2007:
Given the erratic capitalisation in the text on the website, you shouldn't attach much signifcance to the fact that 'cotton' isn't capitalised (see http://www.diytravel.co.uk/Pack-Horse-Bolton-hotel-3529126.h... ).
Amman (asker) Mar 9, 2007:
No Mara, I have copied the exact text, in which 'cotton' is written in small letters.
French Foodie Mar 9, 2007:
Amman, I wonder if Cotton should be in caps like Regency, in which case it would simply be the name they've given to the meal (like the name Regency given to the buffet).

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+4
17 mins
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name of a restaurant in the hotel.

Bolton was a centre of the cotton industry in the 19th century, so I should think the "Cotton Diner" is the name of a restaurant there. "Diner" is really a US English term for a restaurant in a railway (railroad) carriage or a prefabricated building which resembles one, but the word is known in the UK too.
Peer comment(s):
agree Ian Davies : It would be called the Cotton Diner" because of the historical roots of Bolton - the cotton industry was based there. See http://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/77.html
7 hrs
Thank you. Yes, that's what I thought too.
agree Seema Ugrankar
9 hrs
Thank you.Thank you.
agree Pham Huu Phuoc
16 hrs
Thank you.
agree Lubosh Hanuska
21 hrs
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+4
6 mins

restaurant/ dining facility at the hotel

It seems to be a restaurant or dining area at the hotel, as the description says both this and the Regency buffet (restaurant) serve "homemade traditional dishes". It looks like someone missed off the capital C for Cotton, which may have made it clearer.
Peer comment(s):
agree Jack Doughty : You were before me with virtually the same answer.
12 mins
Thanks Jack.
agree Vicky Papaprodromou
14 mins
Thanks Vicky
neutral Jonathan MacKerron : "dining facility" sounds like it might be in a prison or high school
2 hrs
fair comment
agree Alfa Trans (X)
16 hrs
Thanks Marju
agree Lubosh Hanuska
21 hrs
Thanks webguru
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14 mins

simply the name of this specific diner

Webster for diner
" a roadside short-order restaurant that has a long counter and usually booths and that often resembles a dining car"
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