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Meaning of draw the cloth | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To clear the table after a meal.

archaic

Examples

“The silence of our meal was alone broken by the dull clattering of knives and forks, and the tinkling of the bell to summon the brisk waiter to bring wine and draw the cloth.”

“At last, when the cloth had been drawn and the King's health drunk in a glass of port suited to a very young head, they took their coffee and ratafia biscuits (the sea-going equivalent of petits fours) in the great cabin.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

draw the curtains draw the line draw the long bow draw the longbow draw the short straw draw through