wait at table
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Mr Karim was just 24 when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at table during Queen Victoria's golden jubilee in 1887 - four years after Mr Brown's death.
From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2011
Servants wait at table in white gloves, or have a fine napkin in their hand, which prevents its contact with your plate.
From A Hand-book of Etiquette for Ladies by Anonymous
He does not wait at table, but is under the steward, and helps clean the silver.
From A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Messrs. Mills & Co. had a picked staff of forty-two persons to carve the various dishes and wait at table.
From The Second Battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the South African War With a Description of the Operations in the Aden Hinterland by Cecil Francis Romer
Never mind—be quick, and step next door, and ask the old German to come in and wait at table.
From The King's Own by Frederick Marryat
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