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Definition of High table
1. Noun. A dining table in a dining-hall raised on a platform; seats are reserved for distinguished persons.
Lexicographical Neighbors of High Table
Literary usage of High table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"(F. — L. — Gk.) Now used of the raised platform on which the high table ...
OF deis, dois, a high table. —L. discus, a quoit, platter; in late L., a table. ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1884)
"This was the high table for distinguished guests, placed lengthways across the
end of the hall opposite the entrance, and usually on a raised platform. ..."
3. Illustrated New Mexico by William Gillet Ritch, New Mexico Bureau of Immigration (1883)
"The ranges generally rise from 2000 to 5000 feet above the mesas and high table-lands.
... high table ..."
4. A History of Winchester College by Arthur Francis Leach (1899)
"At that time, and until the seventeenth century, a distinction was drawn between
the high table, the Fellows' Table, the Clerks' Table, and the Scholars' ..."
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