Meanings
plural tables d'hôte
- A menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price.
It’s also possible to reserve a table d’hôte if you’re not actually staying there.
2000, “Making the Most of the Route des Plaines”, in Réunion, Mauritius, Seychelles (NEOS Guide), Watford, Hertfordshire; Greenville, S.C.: Michelin Travel Publications, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 158, column 21 more example
The increases from December 4 in the prices of table d'hôte meals in British Railways restaurant cars were expected, in view both of a general upward trend in meal prices in the catering trade and of the fiat that train meals must pay for themselves.
1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Dearer meals in B.R. trains”, in Modern Railways, page 78
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Frenchtable d'hôte“table of the host”
- Englishtable d'hôte
Unadapted borrowing from French table d'hôte (“table of the host”).
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French table d'hôte
- table d'hôtemenu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price
Indonesian table d'hôte
- table d'hôtemenu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price
Polish tabldot
- tabldotmenu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price
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