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refectory table en · NOUN
Meanings
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A very long dining table mostly used in institutions (e.g., schools, colleges, monasteries).
With a clattering of chairs, upended shell cases, benches, and ottomans, Pirate's mob gather at the shores of the great refectory table, a southern island well across a tropic or two from chill Croydon.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN:
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Hypernyms
dining table · table · furniture