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/dˈɪnər tˈeɪbəl/ Listen

Dinner table

noun

The dining table where dinner is served and eaten.

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"Dinner table" Quotes from Famous Books

... do with yourself all day long, Marty, if you don't go to school?" she asked her cousin, at the dinner table. ...

— Janice Day at Poketown • Helen Beecher Long

... of one. I must say that he seldom does. I suppose that his intimate association with Mrs. Ascher had spoiled his manners in this respect. She encouraged him to be oratorical. But I am not Mrs. Ascher, and I saw no reason why I should stand that kind of thing at my own dinner table. ...

— Gossamer - 1915 • George A. Birmingham

... grateful acknowledgement of my hospitality. After that, she covered her head up with her apron again and had another laugh about Mr. Barkis. After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, and nursed it. After that, she cleared the dinner table; after that, came in with another cap on, and her work-box, and the yard-measure, and the bit of wax-candle, all just the ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens

... cold potatoes with an equal quantity of flour, they would find them produce a much lighter dumpling or pudding than they can make with flour alone: and by the aid of a few spoonfuls of good gravy, they will provide a cheap and agreeable appendage to the dinner table. ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... associates, to obtain the necessary sailing directions. The masters had been furnished with a supply of charts, which they had studied daily, as they were instructed in the theory of laying down the ship's course. Foster unrolled the large chart of the North Atlantic Ocean upon the dinner table, and with parallel ruler, pencil, and compasses, proceeded ...

— Outward Bound - Or, Young America Afloat • Oliver Optic

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