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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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I sat out front through the whole dinner service.

From Slate ● Oct. 26, 2026

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

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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