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high table
high table n. and adj. (a) n. a table raised above the rest at a public dinner; spec. (in a university college) the table at which the head of house and fellows sit; (b) adj. erudite, donnish.
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c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 1082 (MED) Forþ gooþ Alisaundre..Riȝth vnto þe heiȝe table.
1554–5 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 363 ix yeardes of Ossenbrydge for a towell to the hye tabyll, iiijs. vjd.
1645 S. Rutherford Tryal & Triumph of Faith xx. 212 Here is a high table, and bread; and a by-board, or an after-table.
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 237 The Dean then went up to the Steps at the High-Table.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. i. 15 No one feeds at the high table except the dons.
1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. I. 116 A dais in parquet-work for the high table.
1927 D. Heathcote Sweden xii. 205 The mulled claret for which the high table of St. John's College, Oxford, has become so famous.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse III. viii. lxi. 1006 There was also the retable above the high table adorned with cascades of silver and crystal suns.
1995 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 15 Oct. 4/4 They have relied for far too long on the sort of high-table sneering represented in Mr. Clark's review.
2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers v. 203 I have sat at High Table and dined off turbot Mornay.
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