refectory table
Americannoun
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a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
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a narrow dining table having extensible ends.
noun
Etymology
Origin of refectory table
First recorded in 1920–25
Example Sentences
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I took a seat at a long, hard refectory table.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2018
From January, the sisters will once again disrupt their usual Sunday evening routine, abandoning their long refectory table to eat supper from trays in front of the television.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 3, 2015
Seated at a Rome refectory table, a young priest tells of hearing the Pope at his window singing along with a choir far below in St. Peter's Square.
From Time Magazine Archive
He tried to wear himself out by long walking, but he wearied himself without effect, and he ended by sinking down worn and broken at the refectory table.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
Pilar appeared at the refectory table in the morning, but she exchanged a glance with no one, and ate little.
From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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