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Recent Examples of refectory table
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for refectory table
Noun
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There are racks with graphic tees hanging and a coffee table book topped with the spring 2025 issue of The Cut — naturally, Bad Bunny is the New York Magazine offshoot’s cover star.—
Lyndsay C. Green,
Freep.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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Plagued by the separation and, as the season played out, the beginning of Taylor and Brittany Cartwright’s divorce, season two was tainted by a domestic situation that occurred before filming when Taylor got angry with his wife and flipped a coffee table that bruised her knee.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
Noun
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The desks get pushed together and pulled apart to become cars, tea tables, dance floors.—
Constance Grady,
Vox,
7 Mar. 2025
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In the end, Waggener’s good taste will set the Maybach tea table.—
Mark Ewing,
Forbes,
16 Aug. 2024
Noun
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President Trump plans to nominate White House economist Stephen Miran to fill a six-month vacancy on the Federal Reserve's board of governors.—
Scott Horsley,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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Robertson and Taylor have created a family advisory board who often volunteer to help out free of charge.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Refectory table.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/refectory%20table. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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