In "How I Became a Hipster," a New York Times account of a long weekend embedded "among the rooftop gardeners and the sustainability consultants and the chickeneers" of Brooklyn, humorist Henry Alford slips abattoir into conversation in an effort to pass as a local.
I signed up for a three-hour, $69 class called Knife Skills, taught at 3rd Ward, a continuing-education center in Bushwick that is heavy on classes like chicken raising and rooftop gardening and cardboard furniture-making. . . . After class, another 3rd Ward student asked me how the class went, so I told her “Well” and then added, “I’m thinking about turning my spare guest room into an abattoir.” She looked impressed.
Learn more about abattoir by checking out its definition page in the Vocabulary.com Dictionary, where you can learn how abattoir's history links it to abate, laboratory, auditorium, and even shambles, which used to be commonly understood to mean the same thing.