green tablen.

Brit.

/ˌɡriːn ˈteɪbl/, U.S.

/ˌɡrin ˈteɪb(ə)l/

Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and table n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., table n.

Etymology: < green adj. + table n. With sense 2 compare earlier green cloth n. 2.

1. A table covered with green cloth and used for board meetings, negotiations, etc.; (hence) one of the boards of Covenanters (see covenanter n. 2) who ruled Scotland 1638–41 (now historical).

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > division of Scottish parliament > specific Scottish parliament

green tablec1650

drinking Parliamenta1699

c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 167 He took also with him to the Grein Table the Marquess boy..with ane vther, callit Gordoun..for alledgit saying he sould schoot Felt Leslie.

a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 25 His Grace knows Presbytrie as well, As Besie doth the Privy Seal:..He was concern'd at the Green-table.

1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Green-table, the large table in the Guildhall, of Newcastle.

1892 Daily News 24 Mar. 5/7 ‘Do that’, say the Ryhope miners, ‘and then we will meet you round a green table and discuss this question of markets and prices’.

1963 French Hist. Stud. 3 234 To come to the green table to discuss European affairs with Napoleon.

2. A gaming table. Cf. green baize n., green cloth n. 2.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > table

ordinary table1578

gaming table1598

whimsy-board1702

gaming board?1716

play-table1717

green table1724

gambling table1769

table1770

1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 212 I had Tables plac'd, cover'd with Wine and Sweet-Meats; the fourth had a green Table for Play, and the fifth was my own Room.

1732 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 24 July 2/1 Mr. Billiard, who spends more than he earns, at the Green Table.

1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. x, in Fraser's Mag. May 551/2 His [sc. the merchant's] bales of dirty indigo are his dice..and the sea is his green table.

1921 Harper's Mag. Nov. 719/2 The usual crowd surrounded the green table where the bourgeois were stupidly losing their francs.

2005 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 20 Sept. d9 You sit down at the green table along with Chris Ferguson and half a dozen other poker experts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	green table
释义	green tablen. Brit. /ˌɡriːn ˈteɪbl/, U.S. /ˌɡrin ˈteɪb(ə)l/ Forms: see green adj. and n.¹ and table n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: green adj., table n. Etymology: < green adj. + table n. With sense 2 compare earlier green cloth n. 2. 1. A table covered with green cloth and used for board meetings, negotiations, etc.; (hence) one of the boards of Covenanters (see covenanter n. 2) who ruled Scotland 1638–41 (now historical). ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [noun] > division of Scottish parliament > specific Scottish parliament green tablec1650 drinking Parliamenta1699 c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 167 He took also with him to the Grein Table the Marquess boy..with ane vther, callit Gordoun..for alledgit saying he sould schoot Felt Leslie. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 25 His Grace knows Presbytrie as well, As Besie doth the Privy Seal:..He was concern'd at the Green-table. 1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Green-table, the large table in the Guildhall, of Newcastle. 1892 Daily News 24 Mar. 5/7 ‘Do that’, say the Ryhope miners, ‘and then we will meet you round a green table and discuss this question of markets and prices’. 1963 French Hist. Stud. 3 234 To come to the green table to discuss European affairs with Napoleon. 2. A gaming table. Cf. green baize n., green cloth n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > table ordinary table1578 gaming table1598 whimsy-board1702 gaming board?1716 play-table1717 green table1724 gambling table1769 table1770 1724 D. Defoe Fortunate Mistress 212 I had Tables plac'd, cover'd with Wine and Sweet-Meats; the fourth had a green Table for Play, and the fifth was my own Room. 1732 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 24 July 2/1 Mr. Billiard, who spends more than he earns, at the Green Table. 1844 W. M. Thackeray Barry Lyndon i. x, in Fraser's Mag. May 551/2 His [sc. the merchant's] bales of dirty indigo are his dice..and the sea is his green table. 1921 Harper's Mag. Nov. 719/2 The usual crowd surrounded the green table where the bourgeois were stupidly losing their francs. 2005 Kansas City (Missouri) Star (Nexis) 20 Sept. d9 You sit down at the green table along with Chris Ferguson and half a dozen other poker experts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1650
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