单词 | service plate |
释义 | service platen. 1. a. A serving plate or serving dish.Earliest attested in Scottish sources; in later use much less common than serving plate. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > serving food > [noun] > utensils for serving > serving-plate or -tray trayOE chargerc1305 service plate1548 venison dish1567 venison plate1567 fruit-trencher1642 salver1661 server1677 voider1677 waiting salver1714 tureen1727 waiter1738 waiting board1770 plateau1790 traylet1825 breakfast-traya1865 cheese board1916 thali1969 charger1984 1548 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 136 Ilk pund wecht of tin of the best chargeour seruice plaite conterfutt dysche trunscheour [etc.]. 1646 Edinb. Test. LXII. 45 in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Service Twelf service plaitts weyand ane stane and ane half viij lib. 1859 F. Volant & J. R. Warren Mem. Alexis Soyer iv. 26 The dresser..was used for entrées—joints and vegetables—and service plates. 1980 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 16 July Steam cauliflower and broccoli separately until just tender... Arrange on a shallow glass service plate. b. U.S. A large decorative plate used to mark a place at table as part of a formal place setting, and as a base on which dining plates, etc., are set during the initial courses of a meal; = charger plate at charger n.1 Additions. ΚΠ 1896 N.Y. Times 25 Oct. (Sunday Mag. Suppl.) 14/2 At each cover is placed a service plate, on which is placed the napkin. 1977 H. Fast Immigrants i. 49 A maid placed a plate of crab meat and mayonnaise on his service plate. 2006 Washington Post (Nexis) 30 Nov. (Home section) h4 A decorative charger or service plate should be removed along with the first course. 2. The vessels used in a church for the celebration of the Eucharist, usually made of precious metals; = communion plate n. at communion n. Compounds 2. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1743 London Evening-post 4–6 Jan. Two Boys..were committed to Morpeth Gaol, for robbing the Parish Church of Ovingham, of the Service-Plate, &c. 1867 J. C. Anderson Antiq. Croydon Church 82 To the energy of Mr. Whittaker..we owe the preservation of the costly service plate of Croydon Church. 1978 C. E. Challis Tudor Coinage iii. 162 A part of this confiscated wealth lay in gold- and silverware, the service plate and altar ornaments of the chantries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548 |
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