Meaning of dinner-table | Babel Free

Definitions

Archaic form of dinner table.

alt-of, archaic

Examples

“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 […]”

“Travellers on the steamers of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company are wont to rail in no measured terms at the fish-paste which forms an invariable and obtrusively evident part of the cargo, yet no Burman would think⟳ a dinner complete⟳ without his modicum of nga-pee, and it is a noteworthy fact that one form⟳ of the condiment is of frequent appearance on English dinner-tables in the East, under the name⟳ of balachong, a term borrowed from the Straits Settlements, but which designates nothing more nor less than a specially prepared variety of nga-pee.”

“The conversation was taking place⟳ at the Elliotts’ dinner-table, and Uncle Charley looked up from his carving to say⟳: […]”

“Isn't it horrible, mamma! One fly⟳ produces fifty-two billions of descendants in 60 days in June and July, and they go and crawl over sick people and wade through pus, and sputa, and foul matter⟳ exuding from sores, and gaum themselves with every kind of disease-germ, then they go to everybody's dinner-table and wipe themselves off on the butter […]”

“But whether she has a home with her parents or not, every normal woman longs for a home of her own⟳, and a girl who resents even arranging the flowers on her mother’s dinner-table will after marriage cheerfully do quite distasteful housework in the place⟳ she calls her own⟳.”

“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.”

“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.”

“In the taper-lit, perhaps pre-sixteeth-century room—a piece of Laughing and Triumphing needlework in the style of Rubens completely hid the walls—the capacious oval of the dinner-table, crowned by a monteith bowl filled with slipper-orchids, showed agreeably enough.”

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