Definition of Dinner plate

1. Noun. A plate from which a diner eats during the main course of a meal.

Generic synonyms: Plate

Definition of Dinner plate

1. Noun. (alternative form of dinnerplate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinner Plate

dinner-times
dinner bell
dinner bucket
dinner dress
dinner gown
dinner hour
dinner jacket
dinner jackets
dinner ladies
dinner lady
dinner napkin
dinner pad
dinner pail
dinner parties
dinner party
dinner plate (current term)
dinner plates
dinner service
dinner set
dinner shirt
dinner shirts
dinner table
dinner tables
dinner theater
dinner theatre
dinner time
dinner times
dinnered
dinnerhour
dinnering

Literary usage of Dinner plate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America by Fredrika Bremer (1853)
"... at this festival, five grains of corn upon the dinner-plate of each guest, which custom is retained to this day in certain of the parts of the state. ..."

2. The Boston Cooking School Magazine of Culinary Science and Domestic Economics by Mass Boston Cooking School (Boston, Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.) (1905)
"Birch Bark Receptacles for Flowers County of Houghton and Clark The Evolution of the dinner plate By Judith Giddings CHINA collecting is, perhaps, ..."

3. The Boy Travellers in Northern Europe: Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey by Thomas Wallace Knox (1892)
"... explained that originally the country was nothing but a broad morass inhabited by savage tribes, who are mentioned by DUTCH LANDSCAPE ON DINNER-PLATE. ..."

4. Breakfast, Luncheons and Dinners: How to Plan Them, how to Serve Them, how by Mary Davoren Chambers (1920)
"The dinner plate may or may not have a more or less highly decorated border, ... The soup plate may have a deep rim like the dinner plate, or it may be ..."

5. The Expert Maid-servant by Christine Terhune Herrick (1904)
"Carry in all the hot dinner-plates at once, put them on the serving-table, and as you take up a service plate from the table put a hot dinner- plate in its ..."

6. Obstetrics, the science and the art by Charles Delucena Meigs (1867)
"Now the Student can readily understand, that if a placenta big enough to fill up the inner part of a dinner plate is lying very safely upon its base in the ..."

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