Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The table in a dining-room, dining-hall, or saloon on shipboard, round which people gather to dine; a dinner-table.
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Examples
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But, dining-table hauteur, compared to effective action and effort, you're our baby!
Daniel Menaker: Stonecasting Daniel Menaker 2011
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But, dining-table hauteur, compared to effective action and effort, you're our baby!
Daniel Menaker: Stonecasting Daniel Menaker 2011
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She stayed up long after Anil slept, holding ice to her cheek at the dining-table.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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We heard them under the dining-table, under the steward's pantry, under Margaret's stateroom.
CHAPTER XLIX 2010
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Sadhana picked up her oven claw and returned to the dining-table.
For the Sake of the Boy Ramola D 2011
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These include an incomprehensible sequence involving dinner plates, and, later, a series of lightly acrobatic routines on and around a long dining-table which show off the flair of the company's two best dancers, Jaime Bernardes and Dielson Pessoa, but convey nothing in the way of meaning.
Cruel; In Pieces 2010
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Expect a National Grid power drain when Nasty Nick is exposed as a cheat during a tense dining-table confrontation with Craig.
Back to The Good Life Julia Raeside 2010
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In The Kitchen she shows an elderly woman, neatly dressed and wearing an apron, sitting by a stove, while another woman seen from the back is seated by a dining-table full of day-to-day domestic items.
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I made the dining-table top of PaperStone and the base of recycled zinc.
Thom Filicia Style Thom Filicia 2008
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We have seen the liveliest men paralysed by it, across a broad dining-table.
Reprinted Pieces 2007
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