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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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Every dinner service that I’m in the kitchen, I’m trying to impart whatever knowledge I have.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 30, 2026

Since George got hurt, there’s no cook for dinner service.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2023

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

In Kirkland, a Korean barbecue spot, Seoul Meat Co., opened in the Village at Totem Lake, open for daily dinner service.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2023

On the shelf below the baffle tray, she kept what was left of Mammachi’s willow-pattern dinner service.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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