dining-table

plural dining-tables

1. datedDated form of dining table.

   1868, "A Clergyman" (John Morison), Australia in 1866, page 165, When gold-digging commenced in California, the writer was staying at an hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, where a Yankee trader was also staying. Seated at the dining-table, the latter was discoursing of the business he was doing […] .

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   And he kept shaking Mr. Gibson’s hand all the time till he had placed him, nothing loth, at the well-covered dining-table.

   1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, “Brightening Prospects”, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume II, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC, page 34

   Between the windows looking upon the lake hangs the great looking-glass, over the Pembroke dining-table.

   1884, Julian Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne and His Wife: A Biography (The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne; XIV), volume I, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, page 369

   Did I wish the roses renewed in a bowl upon the dining-table, sure enough at the next meal they would be replaced by fresh ones.

   1898, Q. [pseudonym; Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch], “A Pair of Hands: An Old Maid’s Ghost-Story”, in A[rthur] T[homas] Quiller-Couch, editor, The Cornish Magazine, volume I, Truro: Joseph Pollard; London: Service & Paton, […], page 420

   So Patty rested, until Pansy came and called them to a most appetising little lunch spread very simply on the dining-table.

   1904, Carolyn Wells, “A Tea Club Tea”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, page 139

   Local custom gives us an “Advent Tree” or “Advent Wreath”: the trees are diminutive Christmas trees, which bear one candle for each Sunday in Advent; the wreaths are wooden rings with as many holes as there are days before Christmas Eve, decorated with fir green, and gay ribbons, and hung up over the dining-table, one candle being added every night till the circle is complete.

   1929 December 28, “Correspondence: A Letter from Oberammergau. [To the Editor of the Spectator.]”, in The Spectator, volume 143, number 5296, page 972