table d'hôte
noun
a meal of preselected courses served at a fixed time and price to the guests at a hotel or restaurant.
tables d'hôte
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pluralof table d'hôte.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The Austro-Hungarian Lloyd's was once famed for good living; over-economy and high dividends have now made the cuisine worse than the cheapest of tables d'hôte.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The tables d’hôte in Germany are excellent, properly supplied, and very moderate.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
All of which is only to explain that the distinguished physician, when he spoke of the absence of tables d'hôte in America, was talking parsnips.
From The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson
I expect to live to see the summit of Monte Rosa heated by steam-tubes and adorned with a hotel setting three tables d'hôte a day.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
At Harrogate yesterday; the queerest place, with the strangest people in it, leading the oddest lives of dancing, newspaper reading, and tables d'hôte.
From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 by Mamie Dickens
