1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch 178 Ordinary friends and table companions [Gk. συμπόται] may be gotten and stollen (as it were) from others.
1712 tr. C. Nepos 159 Not only his chief Counsellor, but his Table Companion [L. neque solum eum principem consilii haberet, sed etiam in convictu].
1861 W. M. Thackeray iv. 180 His next set of friends were mere table companions.
2007 (Nexis) 4 Mar. c1 His table companions had already finished the soup course.