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Definition of Dessert plate
1. Noun. A small plate on which dessert can be served.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dessert Plate
Literary usage of Dessert plate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Health Exhibition Literature (1884)
"dessert plate Designed by John Bratt, Burslem. Manufactured by Messrs. ...
Design for a Porcelain dessert plate, cobalt blue ground, gold ornament framing, ..."
2. The Etiquette of New York To-day by Ellin Craven Learned (1906)
"The way to arrange them is to place the glass plate on a dessert plate ...
Fruit and bonbons are then passed and are taken on the dessert plate. ..."
3. The Practical Hotel Steward by John Tellman (1913)
"Serve on large linen dolly In silver fruit dish, with dessert plate and finger howl.
... Serve on cracked ice In bread tray; dessert plate, orange spoon, ..."
4. Marketing and Housework Manual by S. Agnes Donham (1917)
"Stand at the left of the hostess; replace the filled dessert plate with an empty
one. Go to the guest at the right of the host and exchange the filled ..."
5. Breakfast, Luncheons and Dinners: How to Plan Them, how to Serve Them, how by Mary Davoren Chambers (1920)
"Each is placed on a doily on the dessert plate, with the fruit knife, the nut
pick, or whatever is needed for dessert, flanking the finger bowl on the doily ..."
6. Etiquette: what to do, and how to do it by Lady Constance Howard (1885)
"A dessert plate would be placed before ... The ice plate remains on the dessert
plate, until the guest has eaten the ice, then the servant takes it away; ..."
7. Table Service by Lucy Grace Allen (1915)
"Place filled dessert plate before person to be served (left hand), ... Remove dessert
plate (left hand) and place service for next course (right hand), ..."
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