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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

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

It’s empty inside E3 Chophouse a few hours before dinner service on a recent afternoon, but outside the blare of passing police cars keeps interrupting Jason Aldean as he sits on the restaurant’s rooftop patio.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 2, 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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