dinner table

Origin of dinner table

First recorded in 1800–10

Much of the nation has been caught up in a tempest that resembled one of the dinner-table scenes in August: Osage County.

Jian Ghomeshi’s Very Canadian Sex Scandal |Shinan Govani |October 29, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Trying to guess the outlines of Plan B has become something of a dinner-table pastime for the Lebanese chattering classes.

Curtains for Hezbollah? |Jamie Dettmer |April 11, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Gazebee had got a bargain of the dinner-table and sideboard.

The Small House at Allington |Anthony Trollope
Lilies of the valley are lovely in proper surroundings, but on a dinner-table they are anathema.

The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: |Mrs. W. G. Waters

Besides, I should require to have the “necessary consultations” over the dinner-table.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, August 14, 1841 |Various
The first bell rang, and the second bell rang, and Vivian was seated at the dinner-table.

Vivian Grey |Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli
People fling knives and lighted paraffin lamps at one another in a dispute over a dinner-table.

Preface to Androcles and the Lion |George Bernard Shaw