tablement

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noun

A table.

OriginMiddle English tablement ← Anglo-Norman tablement →
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Meanings

nountablement (plural tablements)

plural tablements

  1. obsoletearchitectureA table.

    When we had fetched therefore a circuit about, we ſat us downe upon the tablements on the South ſide of the temple, nere unto the chappell of Tellus, that is to ſay, the Earth, where we beheld the waters of the Fountain Caſtilius, and the temple of the Muſes, with admiration, […]

    1603, Plutarch, “Why the Prophetesse Pythia Giveth No Answers Now from the Oracle in Verse or Meeter”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Philosophie, Commonlie Called, The Morals […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield, →OCLC, page 1196

Origin

  1. Anglo-Normantablement
  2. Middle Englishtablement
  3. Englishtablement

From Middle English tablement, from Anglo-Norman tablement; equivalent to table + -ment.

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