单词 | dining room furniture |
释义 | > as lemmasdining room furniture b. spec. Designating the table and chairs used in a dining room, as in dining room chair, dining room furniture, dining room set, dining room table. ΚΠ 1734 R. Laurence Indispensible Obligation of Ministring iii. 196 Furnish your Dining-Room Table with Stones for Meat, and fine Dust for Drink. 1772 Gazetteer & New Daily Advertiser 5 Aug. 7/2 Mahogany dining-room chairs. 1868 C. Dickens Let. 11 Feb. (2002) XII. 49 To re-cover, with red leather, all the dining-room chairs. 1882 Ballou's Monthly Mag. Oct. 358/1 The dining-room table is groaning with good things. 1925 Today's Housewife Feb. 7/1 She is all too likely to buy a standardized dining-room set, and then wish later that she had bought a gate-leg table or a drop-leaf table and chairs. 1937 Amer. Home Apr. 67/2 It is probably the revamped dining room furniture which is of the most interest. 2004 Daily Tel. 15 Sept. 3/2 The furniture includes a set of 12 ‘Jacobethan’ dining room chairs made by John Williams of Exeter in 1814. 2019 A. Ridker Altruists ii. 24 Ethan, fifteen years old, sitting nervously across from Arthur and Francine at the dining room table. < as lemmas |
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