|
|
Definition of Dinner service
1. Noun. A table service for serving dinner.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinner Service
Literary usage of Dinner service
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Manners by Eliza M ] [Lavin (1889)
"AMERICAN dinner service. THE method of dinner serving which is now distinctively
known as American commends itself to those who are obliged to rely upon ..."
2. Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue by Robert Ellis, Great Britain Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851, London Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations, 1851 (1851)
"Porcelain centre-piece and dinner service. Tea and coffee services, bread-baskets,
dessert plates, vases, and inkstands. Assortment of figures, &c. ..."
3. Memoirs, Including Original Journals, Letters, Papers, and Antiquarian by Anna Eliza Kempe Stothard Bray, Bray (Anna Eliza), Mrs Bray (1823)
"When the edge of my appetite was gone, I thought of my dinner-service with not
a little disgust. * * * * * To T. Stothard, Esq. Bayeux, Monday, Sept. 29. ..."
4. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"The principal items among porcelain were a Lowestoft dinner service which made
... 39 t8s. ; a Worcester dinner service £42 ; and a dessert service from the ..."
Other Resources:
