单词 | open table |
释义 | > as lemmasopen table open table n. now archaic = open house n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > hospitality > [noun] > liberal open householdc1450 housekeeping1538 open table1602 open house1824 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus ii. v. 870 My father..keepes an open table for all kinde of dogges... He hath your..Leurier, your Spaniell, your Kennets. 1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 79 Mr. Leigh..treated us with true old English hospitality keeping an Open table for all his friends and Countrymen. 1897 M. E. Coleridge King with Two Faces xliii. 332 Excepting on those days of the week when Gustav kept open table for a hundred guests, their fare consisted only of milk and potatoes. 1990 P. Schmitt-Pantel in O. Murray Sympotica ii, 23 To be philoxenos is to keep an open table and so to find a place in the system of exchanges between men of the same rank. < as lemmas |
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