table d'hôte
See also: table d'hote
English edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from French table d’hôte (“table of the host”).
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Noun edit
table d'hôte (plural tables d'hôte)
- a menu offering a complete meal, with little choice, at a fixed price
- 1962 February, “Talking of Trains: Dearer meals in B.R. trains”, in Modern Railways, page 78:
- The increases from December 4 in the prices of table d'hôte meals in British Railways restaurant cars were expected, in view both of a general upward trend in meal prices in the catering trade and of the fiat that train meals must pay for themselves.
Adjective edit
table d'hôte (not comparable)
- Of menu selections, offered at a fixed price.
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References edit
- “table d'hôte”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
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table d’hôte f (plural tables d’hôte)