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Definition of Breakfast table
1. Noun. A table where breakfast is eaten.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breakfast Table
Literary usage of Breakfast table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Book Prices Current (1917)
"Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table ; Professor at the Breakfast- Table; Poet at the
Breakfast-Table. Illustrations by HM Brock. Lond., Dent. 1905-06. ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"Holmes, OW Autocrat of the breakfast table. '02(04) S. (breakfast table ser.,
... Holmes, OW Professor at the breakfast table; with The story of Iris. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"... of the breakfast table, The, Mortal Antipathy, A, the third and last of Oliver
Wendell Holmes's novels, was published in 1885, when he was in his ..."
4. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... which originally appeared in the "Autocrat of the Breakfast- Table." It quotes
Goldsmith's first line as an epigraph. Here are the opening stanzas ..."
5. The Bookman's Manual: A Guide to Literature by Bessie Graham (1921)
"The Autocrat of the breakfast table—The Professor at the breakfast table—The Poet at
... breakfast table Series. English edition. 3 vols. Houghton Mifflin. ..."
6. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... attract general attention was "The Autocrat of the breakfast table," in the
... Professor at the breakfast table" and "The Poet at the breakfast table. ..."
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