refectory table

noun

A very long dining table mostly used in institutions (e.g., schools, colleges, monasteries).

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Meanings

nounrefectory table (plural refectory tables)

plural refectory tables

  1. A very long dining table mostly used in institutions (e.g., schools, colleges, monasteries).

    With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.

    1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN
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