单词 | refectory table |
释义 | > as lemmasrefectory table refectory table n. a dining table in a refectory; (also) any long dining table of this kind, esp. of a type in use in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries (see quot. 1948). ΚΠ 1825 T. C. Croker Clough na Cuddy in A. A. Watts Literary Souvenir (1827) 234 He..had a jolly, comfortable-looking paunch..that was a credit to any refectory table. a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) II. xix. 41 Feeling a little hungry, and not desiring to go back and take my share of the ‘goûter’, now on the refectory-table..I..refreshed myself on a..currant bun. 1923 H. Stanley-Barrett Old World Galleries A.B.C. Hist. Eng. Antique Furnit. (ed. 2) 118 The Elizabethan trestle refectory table usually had heavily carved bulbous legs. 1948 Antique Collector Aug. 127/1 In the late 16th and 17th centuries the common dining-table was an oblong one with either four or six turned legs connected by square sectioned stretchers. In contemporary inventories it was usually called a ‘long table’, but in order to conjure up a picture of jovial monks dining, the long table has been renamed a ‘refectory table’, which inaccurate term is often used today. 2001 J. Hamilton-Paterson Loving Monsters (2002) ii. 10 A pergola, a terrace, lots of greenery in terracotta pots, thick doors and slabby refectory tables. < as lemmas |
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