dinnertable

See also: dinner table and dinner-table

English

Noun

dinnertable (plural dinnertables)

1. Uncommon form of dinner table.
   • 1977, David Mamet, A Life in the Theatre, Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 15:

     John. Up there. Robert. At the dinnertable? (Pause.) You mean up there around the dinnertable, or up upon the stage? (Pause.) John. In the house. Robert. Around the dinnertable?

   • 1988, Dominick Dunne, People Like Us, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, pages 175 and 206:

     Even women he met at society parties looked at him across dinnertables in an inviting manner, sometimes even slipping their place cards into his pocket with their telephone numbers hastily scribbled on them. […] He even began to enjoy dinnertable conversation, as it was a way of spreading the word on his ever increasing art collection.

   • 2002, Ted Nugent, Shemane Nugent, Kill It & Grill It: A Guide to Preparing and Cooking Wild Game and Fish, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, pages 2, 50, 75–76, and 84:

     At the Nugent tribal dinnertable we think of fastfood as a mallard or quail, garlic’d and buttered to perfection. […] We talk each night before bed, do chores together, have great daily reviews at the dinnertable throughout the year, and I make sure we spend as much quality, heart-to-heart time together as possible. […] Maybe that’s one of the reasons a hunting family feels so much better connected to the precious food that feeds us at our dinnertables. […] This killing game for the dinnertable is serious stuff, and I, for one, will never let its impact be diminished.