table drink

plural table drinks

1. uncommonAny type of inexpensive beverage that is consumed during a meal.

   The thin light vin du pays is the table-drink of the poorest peasantry.

   1817, Lady Morgan (Sydney), Sir Thomas Charles Morgan, France, Volume 1, page 65

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   Some there are, who have taken it uſually, inſtead of Wine [which is their table-drink in Spain] at Diner, and Supper

   1662, Henry Stubbe, The Indian Nectar, Or a Discourse Concerning Chocolata: Wherein the Nature of the Cacaonut is Examined: The Ways of Compounding and Preparing Chocolata are Enquired Into Together with a Spagyrical Analysis of the Cacao-nut, Performed by Monsieur Le Bebure, page 115

   One of the most delicious of all table drinks, cocoa - a favorite with children in every part of the world, especially in Europe has a history that reaches back to the Spanish conquest of Mexico and contains many dark and forbidding chapters.

   1917, Forrest Crissey, The Story of Foods, page 402

   not only are they alcoholic drinks obtained by fermentation but they have the same uses (table drinks and thirst-quenching drinks).

   1984, European Parliament (publisher), Working Documents, numbers 1-99, page 22

   A low rate of arterial sclerosis among the people of southern France, where red rather than white wine is the preferred table drink.

   1994, Waterloo Region Record

   As William Pokhlyobkin, Russia's renowned expert on food history noted: "attempts to mix vodka with improper dishes are dangerous, as these attempts may ensue in vodka being discredited as a gastronomically essential table drink ...

   1998, Dmitry Karbyshev, “The Perfect Vodka Appetizer”, in Russian Life, volume 41, page 44

2. uncommonAny type of drink that is associated with bottle service.