commensal
adjective
eating together at the same table.
commensality
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a word derived from
commensal.
Example Sentences
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The modern restaurant—invented in Paris, after the Revolution—is a little temple of commensality: all you need, as shown in so many early Chaplin shorts, is five cents to enter and then to share.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
Among the Greeks the right of commensality, or eating together, was restricted.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by John Rudd
The rule is a very ancient Semitic one, due to the old connection between sacrifice and commensality.
From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by William Graham Sumner
This was a bigotry which I am glad to say I rarely met with, and is certainly not justified by the teaching of the Quran, which permits commensality with Christians and Jews.
From Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell
