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draw the cloth en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (archaic) To clear the table after a meal.
    • The silence of our meal was alone broken by the dull clattering of knives and forks, and the tinkling of the bell to summon the brisk waiter to bring wine and draw the cloth. 1855, Susanna Moodie, Geoffrey Moncton, page 327:
    • At last, when the cloth had been drawn and the King's health drunk in a glass of port suited to a very young head, they took their coffee and ratafia biscuits (the sea-going equivalent of petits fours) in the great cabin. 1996, Patrick O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, page 174:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
drawn the cloth Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
draws the cloth Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
drew the cloth Tense=Past lexicographic
drawing the cloth Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Antonyms

set the table · lay the table

Synonyms

unset the table · clear the table