: a set of dishes and flatware constituting a table service for one person
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Please lay another place setting for our guest.
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Then feathers started showing up in places where there were no birds or, at an outdoor dinner, landing on her place setting and no one else’s.—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026 Inside the venue, each place setting was adorned in part by one of the nearly 200 cake pops sized, measured and baked by organizing committee member Shaikh, who not only committed the week prior to bake for the ball, but also enjoyed developing a sisterhood with the rest of the organizers.—Mariana Navarrete Villegas, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026 Hot chocolate candy cane sticks can be made days or weeks beforehand, and left at each place setting for a fun touch.—Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 22 Dec. 2025 Add Spode Christmas bread and butter plates to each place setting.—Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for place setting