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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.
- Now, commonly, a meal, usually of several preselected and fixed courses, in a restaurant, hotel, or the like, for which one pays a fixed price. Sometimes, a meal with optional courses for which one pays a fixed price irrespective of what one orders; but the latter is usuallyt referred to as a
pris fixe meal or aa la carte meal. Often used adjectively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative spelling of
table d'hôte .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a menu offering a complete meal with limited choices at a fixed price
- adjective (of a restaurant meal) complete but with limited choices and at a fixed price
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chained_bear commented on the word table d'hote
"It is better to have cheap things, as they get ruined here, and not too long skirts. You want a sort of table d'hote gown for dinner, old summer gowns would do."
—Annabel Venning, Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives and Daughters Past and Present (London: Headline, 2005), 188
May 18, 2010