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Definition of Refectory table
1. Noun. A long narrow dining table supported by a stretcher between two trestles.
Definition of Refectory table
1. Noun. A very long dining table mostly used in institutions ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refectory Table
Literary usage of Refectory table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720: Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"No true refectory table has a leaf. They were used before the time of leaves,
... There is a report that a six- leg American refectory table exists, ..."
2. The Manuscripts of Sir William FitzHerbert, Bart., and Others by William FitzHerbert, John Robinson, Arthur Lyttleton Lyttelton-Annesley, Arthur Annesley Anglesey, James Arthur Bennett, Richard Ward, James Joel Cartwright (1893)
"... and this Examinant saith that hee knoweth the premises to be true because he
saw Mr. Oates sit at the refectory table in the colledge: and hee saith ..."
3. Furniture of the Pilgrim Century, 1620-1720, Including Colonial Utensils and by Wallace Nutting (1921)
"No true refectory table has a leaf. They were used before the time of leaves,
and a leaf, can only be sustained by a slide. We count tables with such slides ..."
4. De Luxe Illustrated Catalogue of the Extensive and Very Valuable Artistic ...by Luigi Orselli, Horace Townsend, American Art Association by Luigi Orselli, Horace Townsend, American Art Association (1921)
"894—TUSCAN WALNUT refectory table Sixteenth Century Rectangular top with rounded
edge, plain apron on shaped braces and turned baluster-shaped end supports ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... or lay at rest in the state bed of the visitors' room, she sat in the high
carved seat at the end of the refectory table, her thin hands folded, ..."
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