chummery

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.

Chummeries are extremely conducive to the great yuppie pursuit of networking.

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.