Dinner-table
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Dinner-table is a noun meaning Archaic form of dinner table.
Meaning
Archaic form of dinner table.
Example Sentences
The conversation was taking place at the Elliotts’ dinner-table, and Uncle Charley looked up from his carving to say: […]
That would be bad enough, God knows! but what is it to finding yourself in an infernal "fix," at a dinner-table, with a literary quintagenarian at your elbow […]
Even among friends at the dinner-table he talked as though he were denouncing them, or someone else, on a platform; he measured his phrases, built his sentences, cumulated his effects, and pounded his opponents, real or imagined.
The stink-glands of many bugs are well known to most residents in India, whether by the characteristic odour of the common Bed-bug or by the disgusting taste in one's soup caused by a "gundy” which has been attracted by the lights on the dinner-table.
Word Forms
- dinner-tables
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