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  • noun Plural form of platter.

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Examples

  • We were sitting on a cold stone floor, eating acres of rice and beans off flat tin platters in a structure made of emptied sugarcane stalks.

    Bad Debt 2003

  • We were sitting on a cold stone floor, eating acres of rice and beans off flat tin platters in a structure made of emptied sugarcane stalks.

    Bad Debt 2003

  • Soon they lay in platters of birch, a savory incense filling the air, and in no time the hunters were satisfying their hunger with the delicious salmon and trout, washed down by copious draughts of pure spring water from a nearby rill whose gentle gurgle one could distinguish as it mingled with the noise of the dashing surf and the roar of the falls.

    Winona: A Tale of Negro Life in the South and Southwest Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • Besides, I’m pretty sure the market for taxidermied goats on platters is limited to about 6 of us worldwide.

    Discovered | clusterflock 2009

  • He’d painstakingly recovered audio platters from the less senile databanks in the cities.

    365 tomorrows » Sam Clough : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • He’d painstakingly recovered audio platters from the less senile databanks in the cities.

    365 tomorrows » 2008 » October : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2008

  • See! the table is gold; the platters are the same.

    Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan

  • He does a good job of ensuring that his staff is keeping the punters happy with cold beer and small bites - namely platters of thick-cut onion rings breaded with cornmeal and served with a pasty chili spread called "whammy sauce" - even if the kitchen may be backed up by the wall of customers.

    Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue 2010

  • In between the platters are a number of interventions by Lux - clearly in his working clothes behind the turntable.

    Dublin Opinion 2009

  • A hard disk stores data on these discs, called platters, and this data is accessed through those mechanical heads, called drive heads.

    TabletPCReview.com - Tablet PC Reviews and News 2008

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