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High table

noun

A dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons.

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"High table" Quotes from Famous Books

... choir. The carol, which is a modification of the above, is generally sung by a Fellow, assisted by the choir, and the boar's head is solemnly deposited before the Provost, who, after helping those sitting at the high table, sends it round to all ...

— A Righte Merrie Christmasse - The Story of Christ-Tide • John Ashton

... little square room, mounted on a high table, was a detail map of all the country within sight of the station—and that meant a good many miles of up and down scenery. Over it a slender pointer was fitted to a pin, in the center of the map, that let ...

— The Lookout Man • B. M. Bower

... time, too, the weather was very bad in the Telemark. Violent gales swept the high table-lands, and these winds, which blew from ...

— Ticket No. "9672" • Jules Verne

... children with their tutor, John Skelton, the poet. Arthur, Prince of Wales, was then absent with his father: but the young Prince Henry, afterwards Henry VIII, received the friends gracefully. They stayed to dine in the hall, but apparently not at the 'high table'. The narrative is found in a Catalogue of Erasmus' writings ...

— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus

Words linked to "High table" : dining-hall, board, dining table