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As many calories as this team burns, the menu here runs to a high-volume midday meal of proteins and starches served family-style at the refectory table in the back.
—Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 May 2022
The seven bedrooms are augmented by snugs and drawing rooms while a pantry with a refectory table provides breakfasts, as well as private lunches and dinners on request and minibars.
—Sarah Turner, Forbes, 28 May 2021
The dining room table is a dark oak refectory table.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2020
The Hotel Charleston Cartagena was once a convent; today the refectory table at the entry holds a gigantic arrangement of heliotropes and birds-of-paradise.
—Maureen Orth, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2013
Petals were scattered among gigantic candlesticks on the thirty-foot linen runner covering the immense refectory table; each of us was attended by a footman dressed as a hooded monk.
—Maureen Orth, Town & Country, 11 Jan. 2013
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Word History
First Known Use
1825, in the meaning defined above
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“Refectory table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/refectory%20table. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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refectory table
noun
: a long narrow table with heavy legs
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