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dinner service

British  

noun

  1. a set of matching plates, dishes, etc, suitable for serving a meal to a certain number of people

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Fearful she might accidentally break a dish, Ms. Gulati had not removed the dinner service from her attic in years.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

The restaurant’s dinner service is about to wrap up, though the bar usually stays open until 1 a.m.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 19, 2025

Toward the end of the dinner service, she said, was when she heard the senator’s future wife ask: “What else can the love of my life do for you?”

From Seattle Times Jun. 4, 2024

These are opulent occasions, with diplomacy fuelled by fine dining, using a 19th Century dinner service with more than 4,000 pieces.

From BBC Nov. 21, 2023

After lunch the family dispersed while a few of us, like Martín and Mari, stayed behind to prepare for dinner service.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

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