at table

English

Prepositional phrase

at table

1. eating a meal, especially with others

   sitting at table with a servant

   • 1876, Lady Barker, The Kafir at Home, printed in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume 23 (87?), page 221 [1]:

     […] but anything would have been better than sitting at table with a thing only fit for a May-day sweep on one's head.